I replaced my HB yesterday. Simply removed the old pulleys and inserted the new one. Big mistake that was. I had no idea it would affect timing. Now the van won't start at all. Doesn't sound like anything has ignited. So how do I remedy this?
Sounds like I need to crank the shaft until cylinder 1 is in fire position. That I understand. And then... Align the TDC marker with the crank sensor? Or is the TDC indicator supposed to be seated at 12 o clock? I'm a little puzzled. Any thoughts?
It's a 2.0 2013 Ford a Transit Connect if anyone cares
It's a 2.0 2013 Ford a Transit Connect if anyone cares
It's not a matter of if anyone cares, to be of any help we need as many vehicle details as possible (as noted in the posting instructions).
First thing you need to do since this problem started after working on the vehicle is to go back and check your work. See if you have accidentally disturbed or damaged anything. Also, if your crank sensor is working you should be able to see an RPM indication in live data when you crank the engine. If no RPM signal the sensor isn't working and the engine won't start.
The shop manual for that vehicle has instructions for removing and installing the CPS, which involves setting initial timing:
@chucktobias If I understood correctly, I think he's saying he checked his work, and it was wrong. It was definitely disturbed, and he's looking for the correct procedure to "un-disturb" it.
I had no idea it would affect timing
It's really best to have a service manual on hand any time you do engine work like this. There's a lot to mess up.
Here is the procedure for replacing the crank pulley
@imperator Excellent, I was looking for that but closest I could find was the CPS instructions.
@chucktobias yeah the structure of this Ford manual is really terrible. Not the best I've seen.
@imperator Also there is no search function beyond using the browser to search through the top-level section titles.
From the browser, that's true (using the expand-all button helps). But owners can download their entire manual in a zip and then use a computer to search the contents of every file.
@imperator That's true, but what you get in the zip file is a directory structure with a large number of html and image files, along with javascript and css files.
The html files are simply numbered rather than having descriptive names. Ditto for the images. Doing a search inside the html files brings up a lot of HTML code which is hard to read. So not the easiest thing to for finding what's needed. (There is an "index.html" file to open with a web browser and you get basically the same thing as online.) Of course I may be missing something that makes it easier to search.
Good point. The search would need to be custom integrated. Possible, but it's a bit of work and fairly technical.
@imperator I did find a convoluted way to do it. On Linux or other Unix-type operating system (BSD, MacOS, etc.) you can do something like this from the command prompt in the directory containing the html files:
html2text *.html >filename.txt
Then pull "filename.txt" into a text editor and you can search. I found the crankshaft pulley instructions pretty quickly. The name of the HTML file where the match is found is is also reported, so you can open that HTML file in a web browser to get the full instructions. Here's what I found searching for "crankshaft pulley":
###### 12540.html ######
LEMON Manuals: Even more car manuals for everyone: 1960-2025
Home >> Ford >> 2013 >> Transit_Connect_XL >> Repair_and_Diagnosis >> Engine
Mechanical >> Mechanical >> Engine_Mechanical_-_2.0L >> In-Vehicle_Repair >>
Crankshaft_Pulley >> Removal
*** Crankshaft Pulley: Removal ***
NOTE: Do not loosen or remove the crankshaft pulley bolt without first
installing the special tools as instructed in this procedure. The crankshaft
pulley and the crankshaft timing sprocket are not keyed to the crankshaft. The
crankshaft, the crankshaft sprocket and the pulley are fitted together by
friction, using diamond washers between the flange faces on each part. For that
reason, the crankshaft sprocket is also unfastened if the pulley bolt is
loosened. Before any repair requiring loosening or removal of the crankshaft
pulley bolt, the crankshaft and camshafts must be locked in place by the special service tools, otherwise severe engine damage can occur. ...
not bad. maybe you could even use wkhtmltopdf and keep the images and formatting, possibly even hyperlinks.
@imperator There are a number of command line tools for doing that though I haven't tried that one. You can also use some browsers direct from the command line, such as:
chromium --headless --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf=output.pdf filename.html
(And of course you can print to PDF from a graphical browser.) I expect that software for doing this kind of text manipulation is available for Windows systems as well but I haven't checked.