Timing belt replacement

Tinman · **Joined:** Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:45 am **Posts:** 308

Can be done without tools and should be done without tools are two entirely different questions. I did the belt, WP and thermostat all together. You need to take off the rear cover WP off. To get the rear cover off you'll have to remove the cam pulleys. This this is where the locking pins are invaluable, you just don't have to worry about the cams moving. Plus, you can use them to double check the cam position when the job is done and after you rotate the engine and before you crank it). The tensioner tool is nice and you don't have to fashion something to tighten the belt. The pulley locking tool is great if you take off the pulleys because, one: you have something to hold the cams when you tighten the pulleys (do you really want to put 80 ft.lbs on the small locking pin?). And two, it makes sure the pulleys are lined up in the correct place in relation to the cam and other "teeth" of the belt. I understood the FSM to loosen the pulleys to allow easy application of the belt (getting the belt teeth in the correct pulley slot under tension is hard - but that's the way I did it). It makes no since not to use the tools since we are able to rent them so easily and cheaply .

Other notes: I just finagled the shroud out the top. It was aggravating (and I did crack it) but I couldn't get the fan off (the hardest part of the job) with the shroud in place.

I had to wedge a large bolt in the "spokes" of the fan pulley to get it to not spin when I loosened the fan nut. Again fan and shroud - hardest part of the job.

Not that hard of a job overall and the belt looked pretty good right at 100K miles .

Sir Sam · **Posted:** Thu Apr 12, 2012 3:53 pm

Tinman wrote:

Can be done without tools and should be done without tools are two entirely different questions. I did the belt, WP and thermostat all together. You need to take off the rear cover WP off. To get the rear cover off you'll have to remove the cam pulleys. This this is where the locking pins are invaluable, you just don't have to worry about the cams moving.

Ya, thats why I said this:

Sir Sam wrote:

BUT if you are going to do the water pump, which means taking off the cam gears to pull the rear cover, you need the cam locking pins and the cam gear holder.

Tinman wrote:

(do you really want to put 80 ft.lbs on the small locking pin?).

You do not, at all, one guy broke pins doing this. This is why I have a specific note in the timing belt writeup not to torque the pulley bolts without the use of the cam gear locking tool.

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