Hi all,

Did the timing belt on my Freelander 2 with the 2.2 TD4 engine in the other day. Went pretty well to start with, removed the starter, locked in the timing, removed the old belt and fitted the new one (with new water pump, tensioner and idler). All seemed to be going well until I was hand cranking the engine to re-tension, after 10 revs of the engine I noticed the belt was tracking off the cam pulley and started to hang off the front of it by 3-4mm (attached a picture). I tried re-tensioning, making sure the tensioner was sitting right, made sure the idler is sitting right and made sure I had the right number of teeth on the down side of the timing belt. Tried again and still the same thing... I did notice that it was tracking off from the tensioner side so I'm pretty sure it is the tensioner.

I've bought a new tensioner to rule that out and I'm going to make sure I'm not being stupid and have the belt on the right way (if that's a thing with this belt) but if that doesn't work I'm thinking maybe the tensioner stud is bent? I can't think of anything else it could be.

I'm at a bit of a loss so if anyone has experienced this please let me know what the issue was.

Cheers!