The timing belt
I wrote this back in October last year.
In that blog, I have written,” I will write more about the change of the timing belt
later.” But I forgot it and now I remembered it. Below is the way how I did it.
After removing 3 drive belts for the alternator, the power steering pump and
the compressor for AC, I succeeded to remove the crank shaft pulley holding
the flywheel using a home made SST below.
The next step was to remove the timing belt cover. This required me to remove
the TDC sensor first. Below are the cover and the crankshaft pulley. There are
some dusts but they are not too much.
This is under the cover. The old timing belt doesn't look too bad yet.
I found some coolant leaking.
Then I removed the water pump.
This is a new water pump installed. The power steering pump has some oil leak,
I found.
The leaking oil from PS pump and the alternator.
I need to do something for this but I set it as another project for next. This would
damage the alternator.
A new timing belt and the idler installed.
The cover, the TDC sensor and drive belts were all set.
After everything was completed, I noticed that the engine was running a bit
better than before. It had more power than before. Since it only has 660CC
and a small change can be noticed. It used to have a problem when the AC was
ON. It didn't run good enough and my family member needed to push the gas
pedal to the floor. Now you don't need do that much. I have never imagined so
but the change is obvious and I find it useful to change the timing belt for this
paticular point too. Probably the engine maganement timing is corrected as
is designed, I think.
