PSA Puretech 1.2 EB2FA HMR Engine Timing info?

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BarryP207
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PSA Puretech 1.2 EB2FA HMR Engine Timing info?

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Hi guys,
First of all thanks to the people who run this forum!
My 2018, 2008 1.2 Allure has a problem? Advice needed please.
I changed the cambelt. Now there is blue smoke coming from the exhaust. Seems worse after pausing at traffic lights??
It was fine before.
Never changed a cambelt before but I think I have messed it up, but not sure if this has damaged the engine.
My engine is slightly different to the ones with instructions and videos that I could find online? My camshaft gears/cogs has the lip around the outside so you have to take them off completely to remove the cambelt???? I think this means it is a bog standard 1.2 puretech? Not the VTI model.
Anyway, I turned the engine two complete revolutions. Inserted the locking pin in the hole underneath to lock the crankshaft (or so I thought!). Then I fitted the cam locking tool on the top, fastened it down, and started to remove the old cambelt. The tensioner was released.
When I came to undo the crankshaft bolt the engine started to turn?? The pin was in, but not all the way home it seems.
So I rocked the crank gently from side to side until the locking pin went fully home.
Fitted the new cambelt kit, but now lots of smoke from the exhaust sometimes? Very strange.
After fitting the kit, i turned the engine over by hand, and checked the tools would locate. I did this twice to make sure.
Then engine started no problem. Ticks over sweetly. Drives good. Engine performed well on a test drive, even a brief trip down the motorway, so I thought a job well done?
Changed the oil and filter, coolant.
A few days later I was stopped in the car park with the engine running and I noticed all the smoke for the first time?
Then, like I say, it seems to be worse when the engine has been running and the car has been stationary.
I think the timing must be slightly out?
What I need is a Diagram please or photograph of where the camshaft gears/cogs should be when the engine locking pin is fitted below? Unlike the VTI there is no EX or IN markings to check the 5 o clock position. So can anybody help please?
If I were rebuilding the engine then on initial assemble/set up what would the position of the camshaft gears be in before if fitted the cambelt for the first time? Any help appreciated. It different to the other EB2 engines, I believe the 3rd Generation engine?

Thanks guys!

Baz.
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Re: PSA Puretech 1.2 EB2FA HMR Engine Timing info?

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Check baz meredeth i think that's his surname on youtube
Husky. :? Thinking outside of the box is better than sitting in a dark one.
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