2 liter 16v rebuild questions

[calimus at techography.net (Calimus)]

Just to help give a bit of insight on this, I was over at Dan's
lastnight (trying to get my shift linkage back in order) and was looking
at his engine since it's mostly together now.

When he says that things are hard to move, the cams don't want to move
at all unless I'm using a 1/2" drive and putting body weight into it. 
being that I'm a fat bastard, that means I was putting a lot of effort
into it.  The cams on my 16v are a bit tough to turn, but certainly
don't require me throwing my wieght around.  I figure because everything
is new, valves, springs, lifters you name it, that maybe thats why it's
so tight, I'm not sure though.  

The real problem is his intermiediate shaft though.  I should be able to
turn that by hand with no problem and it's just not going to happen.  I
took a look at the gearing from the shaft to the oil pump and it didn't
look like it was binding on anything but theres only so much I can see
through the peep hole.  I'm thinking about dropping the pan, removing
the pump and testing the pump, but any ideas, tips, pointers, sarcastic
remarks would be helpfull.

William

"daniel_williams@bobcat.gcsu.edu" wrote:
> 
> Hey everybody, thanks for the pointers earlier this week about
> cam alignment.  Got that sorted out, but now I've got some more
> interesting things popping up:
> 
> I'm ready to hook up a timing belt, but everything seems pretty
> tight.  Its hard to move any of the gears without using a
> wrench on the end.  Is that just because everything is brand
> new and hasn't been started yet?  I lost the bolt for my
> intermediate shaft gear too.  Anybody know what size that is?
> All the bolts I have here go in for a few turns and then no
> further.
> 
> thanks for everybody's help again
> Dan
> 
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