How to use volvo timing tool

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Care by Volvo? Volvos with CarPlay Start here. See the Volvo forum 's active topics. Search the Volvo forum. Say hi contact Matthew. This Amazon link helps MVS! You try to rotate right and left and if it only moves a faint amount it is locked, other wise when you move it it will lock. Install finger tight as listed and onto cams locked by the locking tools on rear of cams.

The crank must be in position noted by mark on back side of cam belt gear hub adjacent to the serpentine belt pulley side. There is another mark is in rear in valley between teeth or marked on two teeth and you align split between the two. The VVTs are left loose and the tensioner is tensioned past the indicator being the range indicator uprights and then is brought back between the uprights to assure the hubs rotate to correct postions when belt is tensioned. You lock cams with tool and put crank in position and tighten everthing.

Volvo were kind enough to put a few tabs on the water pump, which help you to get some purchase on it when levering, although they may just be there for casting reasons. The next step is to clean the gasket face on the engine side where the water pump seals to ensure the next water pump will also have a great seal and not leak.

The best way to do this is with some very fine grit sandpaper and a good wipe over to remove any rough remnants of the old water pump gasket. Looking at the new water pump gasket, you can see that it is designed to be retained by the water pump bolts prior to fitting, which helps as you carefully present it up to the engine.

Carefully offer your new waterpump up to the engine and get the thread on a couple of the bolts in and turning without dropping them. This can be especially fiddly to do, but persevere. Once the bolts are in place and threaded in finger tight.

Torque all sevel of your 8mm water pump bolts back up to 15nm or 11ft-lb. The right way to do this is starting at the bottom of the engine at the crankshaft pulley, get the belts teeth firmed up with that and work your way upwards anti-clockwise to the cam pulley keeping good tension on the belt throughout, as this is the pulling side of the belts path.

Take your time with this, it can require quite a bit of patience, and it must be exactly right. Skipping even 1 or 2 teeth can potentially cause the valves to clash with the pistons and do catastrophic damage to your engine. The next step is to correctly tension your new timing belt with the tensioner you fitted finger tight earlier. Have a good look at your new tensioner to be sure of its orientation on the side of the engine. Note the L-shaped pin that is holding the tension off its eccentricity.

You may also find it useful to have a good look at the old tensioner you removed which is easier to look at, being not on the car. To tension the new timing belt on your V50, you will use an allen key in the offset hexagonal hole within the plastic pulley wheel part of the tensioner. When you turn this counter clockwise, it will rotate the centre part of the tensioner and it will add tension to the belt thanks to the fact it is on an eccentric.

Think of this kind of like iron sights on a rifle. You need to get the pointer centred in the backplate slot, and when you do, the pin will become loose and can be removed effortlessly.

Start by having a practise run with the allen key. Turn the allen key anti-clockwise in the tensioner on the car with your right hand. Confirm that you can feel the point where the pin becomes loose with your left. Do not remove the pin just yet. Now, get ready with a spanner for the tensioner bolt in your left hand and do the same again with the Allen key.

When the pin is at its loosest point, use the spanner to tighten down the central bolt of the tensioner to lock it all in place.

This will lock-in your tension setting. One of the most intimidating parts of the job is now done. Your new v50 timing belt is tensioned correctly. It should look exactly like the below, and you can take the same picture to check by slipping in your mobile phone. Go ahead and remove the three timing locking tools. Turn the engine over 6 times from the crank pulley bolt by hand with a socket and ratchet which is a full rotation from top dead centre to top dead centre again, and check they all still line up correctly.

If it all still lines up correctly, after a full rotation of the engine. Your 1. As the Haynes manual famously says, assembly is the reverse of disassembly. Follow the below steps to start reassembling your Volvo V Regarding what to mix your new coolant with, the right fluid is actually softened water.

This is superior to the more commonly used distilled water because of its stability from a molecular chemistry standpoint. This means it is least likely to leave deposits or corrode the inner coolant channels within your engine. Pure coolant actually has a lower boiling point than the correctly mixed solution.

With the car reassembled up to this point and with the new coolant poured in. The ignition and the fuel delivery system were tested. No problems found. Further checks discovered a problem with the engine timing. The timing belt was not installed properly. Luckily the engine in this case was not damaged. Please see the short video on the right. The timing belt was removed and reinstalled as it was supposed to. The problem was solved! Being a professional technician or DIY enthusiast, we suggest you buy and use our unique tool that will help you to lock-up the camshafts and avoiding costly damages that may occur as a result of the timing belt misalignment.

How to use this tool:. See the photos above. See the video on the left.