Hey everyone, I'm doing the timing belt myself for the first time and I've run into some seemingly conflicting bits of information. So far, I've gotten the belt to twist at 90 degrees and the water pump is able to be spun by hand, but with a good deal of force. In order to do so, I had to pull back on the spring tensioner just a tad, otherwise there's so way I can spin the water pump.
Here's the conflicting part; based on the above, I should be good (I'm basing this on various forums/threads and so forth, as well as a couple videos I've seen on Youtube). The reading I get using the Arnnworx tool is showing way out of spec though; I've not turned the camshaft CCW due to some other threads I've read on Rennlist saying that this isn't the case on spring tensioner equipped cars, but I'm just not getting the warm fuzzy yet and would like to hear from the crowd here.
Here's a video showing where I'm at right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MdzEh-OF-A