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I'm having a little trouble figuring out what's going on here. I take it the belt is on but the timing marks are off??
Don't panic, you aren't going to hurt the engine. Never mind what it says in Haynes, the US engines are all "non-interference", meaning valves can't hit pistons.
The thing to do is compress the tensioner, take the belt back off, and start over. Temporarily install the crank pulley or mark the tooth on the crank sprocket with white-out or something so you know the crank is straight up (#1, top-dead-center). you can also figure this out by removing plug #1, inserting something thin down into it till it touches the piston crown, and finding the highest point as you rotate the crank.
The upper (cam) pulley has a mark on the back timing cover, a line on the cover corresponds to a dot on the gear. It's about an 11 o-clock position. The intermediate shaft that drives the distributor has a mark off to the right (when viewed from front) and the same dot on the gear. Again, white-out on the marks helps find them easily.
Use the printed lines on the belt to help get it lined up. The double stripe at the crank gear is confusing: it would line up IF you wrapped it around the crank gear. It doesn't really line up with anything when you're installing it. Kinda weird but that's the way it is.
Once the engine turns even 1 turn, the belt markings won't line up with anything. That's ok, it's just for the initial alignment.
Hope this helps!
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Rob Bareiss, New London CT ::: '87 244DL/M47- 234K, '82 245T/M46-182K, '89 244DL/AW70- 212K Not too distant past: 86 244DL 215K, 87 244DL 239K, 88 744GLE 233K, 88 244GL 147K, 91 244 183K
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