Great video

This is a terrific video; most informative, thank you.
But I have a question about aligning the timing mark on the crank. You showed using the tool to perfectly position the crank, which I understand. But I have watched others that put the crank key at approximately 12 o'clock, which puts the timing mark on the crank gear at about 7 o'clock.
My question is does it really matter how precisely the crank is rotated as long as the marks on the chain links are correct at the crank and cam gears? In other words, if you put everything together as you showed, then rolled the crank 10 degrees, the links would still be over the same teeth and marks on the crank gear and cam gears, so what would be the difference?
You mentioned in the video that you would show how to align the crank the old fashioned way, but did not get to it in the video, unless I missed something.
Thanks again for the vid.

 

This is a terrific video; most informative, thank you.
But I have a question about aligning the timing mark on the crank. You showed using the tool to perfectly position the crank, which I understand. But I have watched others that put the crank key at approximately 12 o'clock, which puts the timing mark on the crank gear at about 7 o'clock.
My question is does it really matter how precisely the crank is rotated as long as the marks on the chain links are correct at the crank and cam gears? In other words, if you put everything together as you showed, then rolled the crank 10 degrees, the links would still be over the same teeth and marks on the crank gear and cam gears, so what would be the difference?
You mentioned in the video that you would show how to align the crank the old fashioned way, but did not get to it in the video, unless I missed something.
Thanks again for the vid.

In theory yes as long as the timing marks line up you should be ok but per Ford I have always been told the most important thing is to have that crankshaft at the perfect position and everything else will follow from there. The old fashion way of checking the crank is to just slide the crank sprocket on there and set it at 6 o'clock which is easier. Then the keyway will be set at the 11 o'clock position.

 

I used the haynes book to set my timing for the 2005 ford. On page 2b-13 section 35 it states to put keyway in 10 o'clock position, which we did and then reassembled the engine.
Guess what? Won't start! Ugh!! Just found your video and this forum and you say 11. Would that be the problem with mine?

 

Turning Crankshaft after removing the chains

I rotated my crankshaft after the chains were removed. I then lined it back up to where cylinder 1 was damn near TDC and the crankshaft keyway was at the 11 o'clock position, with the dot on the timing sprocket at the 6 o'clock position..

I then aligned the chains on the cam phasers, and sprocket accordingly and put it back together with new parts.. My question is... by rotating the crankshaft with the chains removed and then returning it to TDC in cylinder #1 with the crankshaft keyway at the 11 o'clock position...


Should I still be okay? Or did rotating the crankshaft with the chains not attached mess with something else? I do not want to bend a valve or cause the motor to fail..

I was so scatter brained when I attempted this... I thought I had to rotate the crank again to get it on the compression stroke in cylinder #1... Idk why I did this... Looking back I should have just not touched anything after I removed the chains....

Any suggestions about this?