Pablo Puma
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Hi everybody, I am new at this forum and I have got some doubts with the Puma´s 1.7 timing. However, first of all I´ll introduce myself. My name is Pablo and I am from the northwest of Spain. Me and a couple of friends bought a 1999 Puma 1.7 mainly for endurance types of races. The car is in pretty good shape but we are doing some basic maintenence to it and one of the things is the timing belt and water pump. The thing is, that the Ford program and programs like Autodata say that you have to use the 303-376 tool to lock the camshafts but to be honest, the fit is pretty weird when the crankshaft is against the locking pin.
I saw that there is another camshaft locking tool, the 303-692, which the ESi-tronic from Bosch says that it has to be used. We didn´t find one so we built it with a 3d printer thanks to a file with all the measurements we found on the internet. The thing now is that, to be able to lock both camshafts (beind the crankshaft at TDC), the intake camshaft has to be moved backwards around 10 degrees making both cam lobes mismatch.
My question is, being the crankshaft at TDC do the camshafts need to have their cylinder 1 lobes at the same height? Wich camshaft locking plate has to be used?
The car is running fine, and there are not any DTC in the ECU, the only thing is that sometimes when you accelerate from around 2500 rpm it hesitates for a second. We can just make marks and use more or less both locking plates we have, but we just bought the car so we don´t know it´s past and I would prefer to be sure.
Also I wanted to post some pictures but I don´t know how to.
Thank you all.
I saw that there is another camshaft locking tool, the 303-692, which the ESi-tronic from Bosch says that it has to be used. We didn´t find one so we built it with a 3d printer thanks to a file with all the measurements we found on the internet. The thing now is that, to be able to lock both camshafts (beind the crankshaft at TDC), the intake camshaft has to be moved backwards around 10 degrees making both cam lobes mismatch.
My question is, being the crankshaft at TDC do the camshafts need to have their cylinder 1 lobes at the same height? Wich camshaft locking plate has to be used?
The car is running fine, and there are not any DTC in the ECU, the only thing is that sometimes when you accelerate from around 2500 rpm it hesitates for a second. We can just make marks and use more or less both locking plates we have, but we just bought the car so we don´t know it´s past and I would prefer to be sure.
Also I wanted to post some pictures but I don´t know how to.
Thank you all.