Finished up around midnight. Moving the wiring harness and the cam sensor housing to get the locking tool on was the biggest pain. Followed all the advice I had been given and everything went pretty good. The tab that holds the spring on the belt tensioner had broken off and the spring had lost all ...

Thank Livens. I'll be sure to turn it twice. I've done a handful of timing belts on various cars just never dealt with a vvt issue. My wife's '05 F150 vvt has been making a ticking noise for 60k miles and all the ford techs have told me to leave it alone but she has a chain so oil leaking in the sys...

Thanks guys. This info is invaluable. I can see how I was confused since the newer S40's have a spring loaded vvt. I already understood that there was really no way to do this right without locking the cams and now i understand loosening both cam gears and tensioning the belt to bring the alignment ...

First time post. Thanks in advance for any help. VVT is leaking and slinging oil and the timing belt is covered. I'm worried it's going to jump. I will be replacing the exhaust cam gear and timing belt this weekend. Water pump, tensioner and pulley changed about 10k miles ago with belt change. I wil...