Cam and crankseal replacement need some help.

[DinoCasino]

I picked up my buddys 01 v70 xc awd from him 2 weeks and the car was leaking oil pretty bad. Decided to take care of all 4 cam seals, the front crank seal, and valve cover/spark plug seals. Well unfortunately i took the valve cover and timing belt off without setting the crank to be in line with the mark on the oil pump. So I have a few questions from this point:

1) How can I tell if my crank is at the correct revolution to hook the belt up to the cams?
2) I have the cam alignment tool hooked onto the rear of the cams, well now the exhaust cam gear is not aligned up with the cam gear shroud like its supposed to be. But say I attached the timing belt to the cams and crank, then take off the cam alignment tool and bolt on the cam sensor indicator the cam will spin as I tighten the bolt. Is that normal for the cam to spin seperate from the cam gear? ( it has the vvt solenoid on it ) If that is normal, which should I align when attaching the timing belt, the rear of the cam? Or the cam gear with vvt?

Thanks for your help in adnvace.

[howardc64]

Sounds like you have a lot of things disassembled. More than I'm familiar with. I do have some notes in timing marks on the cam gears and crank

http://www.freewebs.com/howardsvolvos/engine.htm

I think there is a step to reset the vvt properly. I've never had cams move during my timing belt job so unfamiliar with this step. Definitely research this

If you have all these seals leaking, definitely do a PCV job when you are done with seals or clogged PCV will push out your new seals.

[Xheart]

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If you have all these seals leaking, definitely do a PCV job when you are done with seals or clogged PCV will push out your new seals.

+1
The seals would fail again sooner you can imagine. If not Volvo's then sooner - heartbeat away.
Start with PCV, and work up to the seal.
I would split these into 4 separate projects with beginning and end between each.

[DinoCasino]

THank you for the advice, I will replace the pcv system next.

Next on my agenda here is installing the vvt unit and exhaust cam gear, has anyone done this before? Would you be able to explain it to me simpler than these volvo intstructions here: http://www.justanswer.com/volvo/6vh5o-volvo-v70-x-c-awd-set-cam-timing-2001-volvo.html