Q: Timing belt replacement wont start right
So I just replaced the seals and gasket oin my oil pump to my 98 Toyota Camry 2.2 ,when i took the belt off I forgot to draw on the alignment marks and went online and bought a book took locate the marks so I made sure yo line the hole up with the notch on cam and the crank sprocket is lined up the 0 one bottom timing cover at tdc and still nothing I've tried going over one tooth to the left and right and sometimes it starts but dosent sound like the alignment is right please help I also did a compression test everything okay
My car has 100493 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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