Timing Belt: Service and Repair

PREPARATION
^ Battery ground cable.
^ Support engine.
^ Remove right side engine mounting.
^ Remove power steering drive belt.




REMOVAL
1 Serpentine drive belt
2. Mounting bridge bracket
3. Harness cover
^ Remove harness cover from upper timing cover.

4. Upper timing cover
5. Crank pulley
^ Front exhaust pipe




^ Torque rod bracket from cylinder block.
^ Torque rod center bolt and nut from center beam.
^ Torque rod and bracket together.
^ Stud from trans

^ Stiffener.
^ Flywheel dust cover.
^ Remove crank pulley bolt with locking fly wheel ring gear and remove crank pulley.

6. Lower timing cover
7. Timing belt

^ Reinstall crank pulley bolt and align crank timing pulley and camshaft pulley.

^ Loosen tension pulley fixing bolt 1/2 turn.
^ Insert a hex wrench into tension pulley hexagonal hole and loosen timing belt by rotating tension pulley.
^ Remove timing belt.

INSTALLATION
To install, follow the removal steps in the reverse order, noting the adjustment procedures. Adjustments