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There are complicated ways of doing the timing belt that involve extra steps and those ways work and there are simple ways of doing the timing belt with fewer steps and those ways work too. I tend toward the simple and if someone puns on that I'll have to shoot someone.
No harm in taking the radiator out and it certainly makes for more working room but once the fan shroud and fan are out, they have to come out, there is plenty of room so why bother. Yes the fuel pump has a mark and it lines up with another mark but only once every 3 revolutions. No harm in lining it up but why bother UNLESS you are putting an out of time engine back together at which point it might matter although I don't know if that's the case. If the engine was in time when you started the project the thing to do is get the flywheel and cam pins in place and put some witness marks on stuff, like the pump, to make sure nothing moves while you do the job - if you do this the engine will be in time when you finish the job; that's the simple approach.
The even simpler approach that scares me too much to even think about attempting is to skip the pins and just mark everything. Should work but on an interference engine should is not good enough for me. Got to draw the line somewhere.
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Sold to LOST member my 05 Ltd, GDE Stg II turbo + TCM tune, SunCoast TC w. Transgo kit, Steiger window regulators, Samcos, Fumoto valve, 2nd gen filter head with Lub. Spec. bleeder, Hayden clutch & 11 blade fan, inverted spare, P-1 battery, BF Goodrich Long Trail TAs, Etecno1 glow plugs, timing belt at 50K miles/8 yrs
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