Recent content by 97blkt4r

Well I made a mistake. After putting everything together and being worried about the noise, thinking that something might be installed wrong, I took it to a shop. I had them disassemble and reasemble everything and asked if they could remove the two broken bolts and put in the new crank and cam...

That's good to know, I'll have to take a look at that. I didn't change the pulley, only the belts, bearings and tensioner. Are you asking if I changed it, or suggesting that I should change it?

The belts were tighten to roughly the same as before (going off how much the belt moves when pushing down on it between two pulleys), there is give, but not a lot, maybe a 1/4 inch. Could be it, but I think (although I'm not positive) that it's coming from behind the cover, the area where timing...

So it took a couple tries, but I finally got the timing to line up and I put it all back together. Last night I started it up and had no leaks, which I was happy about, but after driving for about 10-15min I parked and I noticed some noises. I checked it out and it was hard to tell, but it...

Anyone know if adjusting everything the way I talked about in one of my previous post would work, or would this damage something?

Oooh yeah, I know what your talking about. Yeah, when I put it on, I made sure it slid on around the key portion.

I was wrong with my earlier post, when I looked back I realized that when the cam shafts are at TDC, both the pulley with teeth and the one that connects to it are off from the TDC markings.

What's the "key"?

Seems to be significantly off: To adjust everything correctly should I rotate everything so that the crank shaft is at TDC, then take of the belt and rotate each cam shaft one at a time making each of them at TDC, then put the belt back on?

I don't understand though, I the cam shaft and the crank shaft were lined up at TDC when I took everything off and when I put it all on the the crank shaft pulley (the one with teeth) was lined-up, it's just the pulley that connects to that doesn't line up with the zero.

I hope I have the same luck. So yet another problem... I put the timing belt on and the tensioner, then I put the crank shaft pulley on and the mark doesn't line up with the zero anymore. The cam shafts are still at TDC though. What do I have to do to get them all lined up?

Well this sucks, two of the water pump bolts snapped when I was tightening on the new water pump. I tried using one of those drill bits that is made to remove broken bolts, but it just won't come out. I hate it, but I'm going to cross my fingers and hope that the rest of the bolts will keep it...

Hahaha Finally got the bolt and bracket out. The kit I bought came with a seal called a "crank seal." I don't see where this seal is at and I don't see it in the haynes manual. Anyone know where this is located?

I might look at getting that bolt strip remover kit. What does that look like, so I know how to describe it if I go to sears?

So today I attempted to change my timing belt and water pump. Many of the bolts seem to be unreasonable tight, but the ones in the back on the a/c compressor bracket are ridiculously hard to get to and extremely tight. I just have one bolt left but its starting to strip and won't break loose...