These photos are of a scheduled timing belt change in 2008. The vehicle was about 11 years old, and this was the 2nd TB change I'd done. They're supposed to be done every 96K km/60K miles. This was @ around 202K km IIRC.
1st photo - Here's the old TB still in place, with the three timing marks (crank and both cams) lined up and highlighted:
At this point I extended the timing marks onto the TB so I wouldn't be fooled by the parallax. (As me why I know about this.)
I did the entire gig - new tensioner, new tensioner pulley & spacer insert, new idler pulleys, and new water pump:
This little guy fits over the tensioner plunger, and takes any lateral stress before the pin is pulled to allow the plunger to operate. (More school of hard knocks here.)
It was simple enough to transfer the paint marks over to the new belt (by counting teeth) and install the new belt. Unfortunately, I didn't take any photos of the new belt in place. Even more unfortunately, I chose to save a few bucks by buying an aftermarket made-in-you-know-where water pump from a jobber. It was the only non-factory part I used as part of this job, and it did not last long at all. I would have been better off leaving the original in place. To be continued next post ...
1st photo - Here's the old TB still in place, with the three timing marks (crank and both cams) lined up and highlighted:
At this point I extended the timing marks onto the TB so I wouldn't be fooled by the parallax. (As me why I know about this.)
I did the entire gig - new tensioner, new tensioner pulley & spacer insert, new idler pulleys, and new water pump:
This little guy fits over the tensioner plunger, and takes any lateral stress before the pin is pulled to allow the plunger to operate. (More school of hard knocks here.)
It was simple enough to transfer the paint marks over to the new belt (by counting teeth) and install the new belt. Unfortunately, I didn't take any photos of the new belt in place. Even more unfortunately, I chose to save a few bucks by buying an aftermarket made-in-you-know-where water pump from a jobber. It was the only non-factory part I used as part of this job, and it did not last long at all. I would have been better off leaving the original in place. To be continued next post ...