Step 5: Install Crankshaft
I had some difficulty understanding / finding the alignment marks to mate the crankshaft and camshaft correctly. In hindsight, it was pretty obvious, but the images in the service manual were horrible.
Here is the mark on my crankshaft circled in red:
And the mark on the camshaft has yellow paint on it (it's a little round divot)
I've asked several times if this or that was any indication that a PO has been inside this motor, and every time it's a "not necessarily" - but what about that yellow paint on the camshaft?
It should be noted here that there was a two-piece camshaft pictured in the service manual, and it requires some matching of timing marks, but mine did not. It was a one-piece unit:
Anyway, here they are mated up. I had to gently bump it into place using a rubber mallet, because the shaft goes into the bearing snugly. You can't really see the crankshaft mark now, but trust me...they're in time.
This was a good time for me to get out all of the hardware that I bagged during engine breakdown. I cleaned them all in mineral spirits earlier. Now I grouped and matched them up on a nice clean piece of plastic. It'll make the reassembly go much smoother:
