To get started, I'm trying to do this:

1) Line up the crankshaft to it's pointer, driver's side and passenger side cam pulleys to their marks
2) Loosen up tensioner and upper idler pulley, located between two cam pulleys
3) Put the belt mark on the right place on the crankshaft (belt mark ends up being about 3:00 IIRC)
4) Clamp the belt on the crankshaft
5) Route up and around the water pump, to the driver's side cam pulley
6) As tight as I try to make it, the belt still wants to land a cog off

So I'm hardly out of the starting gate on this, and can't loosen the water pump pulley. We were able to get past this point yesterday, so it might just be beat up hands aren't able to pull it as tight as yesterday?



Any more tips to get started, before the idler and tensioner even come into play?

Thanks, and I'm still interested in someone coming by and doing this for us.