2005 V6 valvetrain... wtf?

subaruspy said:

I do have the Taiwanese knockoff tool kit.

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There's nothing in there that actually holds the jackshaft, which is buried in the motor where it can't be got at without pulling the intake manifold, etc.

Well, I think we got a handle on this. I'm still creeped out by the just-tighten-the-jackshaft-bolt-and-believe-that-the-shaft-won't-rotate-despite-being-held-by-nothing thing, but it seemed to work. The Cloyes video helped a lot (thank you very much, MustangIIMatt), and was the first time I'd seen that plastic oil metering stick explained - until then we were wondering why the hell we got that and its setscrew in the kit. I decided to do a practice assembly pass with the old bolts, and once I was satisfied that the procedure worked, plug in the new TTY bolts in a second pass. And what a delight it was to discover that my mid-range torque wrench doesn't work with left-hand threads! Whee!

But consider how fundamentally stunned it is to mill key slots into the back ends of the camshafts in order to be able to attach the alignment fixture because there weren't any slots milled in the front ends of the shafts to mate with sprocket keys. Duh.