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gunner1x1...i am trying to maintain my calm but you keep asking the same question even though you have got the answer

using the pictures that were previously shown, you have a 1200 carb engine....

like i bluddy well said before..... use the notch & pointer off your alt pulley...then time it up at the top as before. then turn it over with the plugs out..... and then recheck the cam timing........

just put your bottom pulley back together & retime it to the pointer & notch. re time the top pulley, and when you come to put the belt back on, maybe try the notch one tooth to the right of where it...

loads of people believe it though.....i think its cos the autograssers(etc) allow for skimming of the cam carrier in their regs.... if you skimmed enough of it, it would push the hyd tappets down a...

i think it just needs a new cambelt (AND A WATER PUMP)

i've been ridiculing that particular myth for longer than i've had my views on head skimming

this engine is so old, i don't think it has the bottom marker arrow like the later ones.

stranger things have been done to an engine before.... it might have been skimmed 6 or 8 times in its life.......or once badly.

1.i always use the bottom timing mark as in the pic for cambelt timing. but i'm thinking that this engine's head may have been skimmed a fair bit, which, when you think about it, will move the cam...

please take some pics of the top & bottom pulleys showing their timing. then we can make a better diagnosis.

that could be as close as it gets. does it run?

well, what i don't understand is, that if you time the crank pulley up, then time the cam pulley up, and fit the belt over those 2 pulleys with no slack between them on the rad side of the engine,...

have you loosened the water pump?

it depends if you are in the barrel or not..........

you can also get to look at rude stuff in the 18+ section;);)

oh, i dearly hope it isn't that....

on a slightly more serious note, the very first time i did a head gasket, i decided to just have one more look before bolting it down, and found a jubilee clip...

there was a thread on here a few weeks back on a similar subject, and wasn't there some debate about the gasted being on upside down blocking oilways or similar...? the lifters then couldn't work...

but the design of the 1.2 engine means that if the pistons were against the valves, the lifters should simply push the oil out, and i can't imagine the cam, or the crank got turned very much between...

did you compare the new lifters with the old ones?? cos there is obviously something wrong.. i reckon you need to get the head back off, and take a look at them, as they should have some spring until...

in that case, as long as everything is assembled correctly, i'm stumped. most of us on here put the lifters in pretty much dry, so they can fill up as the engine starts, but a 1.2 should have a bit...

what engine?

some of them need the cam timing in before dismantling., which is why you can buy cam locking tools.