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- From: taylorb@ncifcrf.gov (Brent Taylor)
- Subject: 2.0L 16V Timing belt
- Message-ID: <C1H89A.GxI@ncifcrf.gov>
- Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:46:21 GMT
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- Well, I finally got around to changing my ailing timing belt tensioner on the
- 16V 2.0L. This meant that I had to take the lower timing belt cover off (or so
- I thought!) - which meant that the pulleys on the crankshaft sprocket had to
- come off. Well, I got the first pulley off, but damn if I could get the other
- one off! This is the one that drives the air conditioning compressor. Does
- anybody know what gives here??!!
- Does this pulley come off.... or is it attached (permanently) to the crankshaft
- sprocket? I even tried loosening the center bolt on the crankshaft!! NOT! It
- wouldn't move!
- So I resorted to using the brute force method of bending back the lower cover
- enough to get the tensioner in. But now I want to change the belt on my 1.8L
- 16V (I'm assuming it's the same) and I HAVE to be able to get that pulley off.
- If anybody has any experience in this pulley, please post/mail as this is kinda
- buggin' me.
-
- btw.... The bentley manual has to be wrong on the tensioning on the timing belt
- on the 16Vers. They say when you can no longer twist the belt by hand 45
- degrees, that it's tight. 8Vers are tight when you can twist 90 degrees. I
- challenge this, as I am pretty sure this is what burned out my tensioner in the
- first place! And with the new tensioner on and the belt tightened to the
- Bentley spec, the tensioner was screeming (literally!). So I loosened to the
- 8V spec. and everything seems oakey dokey.
-
- Any explainations would be appreciated!
-
- Brent Taylor
- Frederick Biomedical Supercomputing Center
- taylorb@ncifcrf.gov
-
-