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Does anyone know of any links or have any advice on how to install the timing belt into a ej22 motor,we installed a new timing belt in my ej22 and it's now running rough so thinking it must have slipped on a pulley on installation ,is there any way of checking if it's incorrectly fitted without pulling too muchapart, and is there any tips on what to look out for once you've got the covers off the cam belt pulleys. any help would be appreciated.
Regards Cheffy.

I am not sure on 22's but it is easy to change the dizzy position on ea82's when changing belts.
Thats the 1st thing i would look at before pulling everything apart.

Kev

sounds like one of the cams is wrong and its probably the drivers side one as the pass side one has the sensor on it and it wont run if they are out of sync/ wrong,if it ran ok before you did the work and now it doesnt it means you're doing it again sorry

camo

Possible best way is to remove left and right side covers and line up the pointers up (on the cam pulleys) and see if left and right are both the same, if not then the belt has slipped over one or two or more teeths.

Here is a picture of EJ22T engine (very much the same as EJ22 except turbo).


Cheers
AP

Thanks guys for your help,have stripped the front end off and discovered the cam had slipped a cog on both cam pulleys,fixed it up and now runs like a charm.
Regards Cheffy.

I knew I saw it somewhere just took me a while to find it.

This site, although it's actually about aircraft, has heaps of info about various suby engines, including a complete procedure for timing belts, amoung other things.

http://www.prachapter34.com/converting_engines.htm

Sorry it took so long to find it, might be useful to the next person.

Jordan.

Kev wrote:I am not sure on 22's but it is easy to change the dizzy position on ea82's when changing belts.
Thats the 1st thing i would look at before pulling everything apart.

Just a point to note that EJs don't have distributers.