timing belt installed woo hoo!, Not that hard. Options

[madmods]

Yay. my! car is running again. I installed a timing belt, water pump and a new power steering belt. The job was not that hard. I used all 3 celica manuals and picked up tips from all 3. The hardest part was trying to remove the crankshaft pulley without a crankshaft pulley holding tool. After a day of trying all kinds of different things, a friend said why dont I just use his impact wrench. It came off in seconds! The next hardest thing was, the books did not call out a bolt that was under the engine mounting bracket. Its there. removing the engine mounts was easy, and I had to jack the engine up and down to get to bolts from the bottom and the top of the car. Use a hydraulic jack. Other then that, its not hard and i consider myself more of a body man then a mechanic.

[blu94gt]

I need to have mine done, but I think I'm going to just take it to the Toyota dealer in town, I don't really feel like bothering with it.

[LewFX]

probably 4-500 at the dealership?

[celicaboston1983]

i paid 300 for mines. dont have the balls to mess with it and f#ck it up

[Jaws4God]

yeah i'd like to do in on my own... i have the belt already...


think you could do a how to???

[rjbibeau]

do you just slap the new belt on or do you have to make marks one where the old one came off and the number of grooves between the gears?

[toyotatech]

do you just slap the new belt on or do you have to make marks one where the old one came off and the number of grooves between the gears?
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you put the engine at TDC and pull old one off and then put the new one on without moving the crank or the cam to much.

[rjbibeau]

thanks bro