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Ford fiesta timing

Adam0801
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Hi everyone. 

I have recently had a piston crack on my sister Ford fiesta mk7 1.25. 

Obviously the price of a new piston and actually fitting it heavily out weighed a replacement second hand engine. 

I have a second hand low mileage engine and have decided to replace what I can whilst it's out of the car. 

Waterpump is done. 

Just a quick question. I have used to ford locking set. Confirmed piston 1 TDC. The peice of metal fits in the end slots. 

Fitted the new belt with cam sprockets undone, let the tension go on the new tensioner. The tightened the sprockets up to 60nm whilst holding them. Turned the engine over 4 times hit the TDC pin. Peice of metal slides straight in. So I felt happy. 

From the pic below of the cam sprockets to me they look 1 tooth out or the belt needs to move slightly. 

I'm thinking maybe I need to loose the sprockets and the bottom pulley turn it all so the sprockets teeth line up. 

That or I may just leave it as everything lines up perfect and opinions would be great. 

https://ibb.co/3NRGbNz

Thanks 

Adam 

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    2 hours ago, Adam0801 said:

    Hi everyone. 

    I have recently had a piston crack on my sister Ford fiesta mk7 1.25. 

    Obviously the price of a new piston and actually fitting it heavily out weighed a replacement second hand engine. 

    I have a second hand low mileage engine and have decided to replace what I can whilst it's out of the car. 

    Waterpump is done. 

    Just a quick question. I have used to ford locking set. Confirmed piston 1 TDC. The peice of metal fits in the end slots. 

    Fitted the new belt with cam sprockets undone, let the tension go on the new tensioner. The tightened the sprockets up to 60nm whilst holding them. Turned the engine over 4 times hit the TDC pin. Peice of metal slides straight in. So I felt happy. 

    From the pic below of the cam sprockets to me they look 1 tooth out or the belt needs to move slightly. 

    I'm thinking maybe I need to loose the sprockets and the bottom pulley turn it all so the sprockets teeth line up. 

    That or I may just leave it as everything lines up perfect and opinions would be great. 

    https://ibb.co/3NRGbNz

    Thanks 

    Adam 

    there timed on the camshaft if your bar fits in the slot and it hits the timing pin then its fine as you said it been turned 4 time without hitting anything

    then it should be fine the bar only fits one way so if it was out it would not fit in the slots

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