My Gates timing belt kit arrived... uh oh. hehe

daewoomofo · Post by **daewoomofo** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 6:45 pm

bump the starter

DomWoo · Post by **DomWoo** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 9:19 pm

get a breaker bar with a 17mm socket and put it on the exhaust pulley and turn clock wise until marks line up.. get a paint pin or marker and make some marks

JohnnyC · Post by **JohnnyC** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 12:40 am

It's all back together now with the new timing belt and stuff... I'm waiting until later to actually try and start it... hehe I think it's all correct, but I'm still nervous about it.

JohnnyC · Post by **JohnnyC** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:45 am

Okay... so here's the lowdown on my timing belt change.

On the one hand it seems to be running well when I'm out on the road. The down side is that it seems to be idling a bit rougher than it was before.

There is a slight pulsing sensensation I noticed when I was at idle. Goes away immediately upon hitting the gas.

I also switched from a SRI to a CAI, I don't know if that would have any real effect on the idle or not.

Overall the performance on the highway was good. Acceleration was good... just that kinda pulsing vibration feeling when I'm at idle.

The tach is holding at about 900-950 rpms while idle without dipping at all.

Another thing I considered is that there may have been a small amount of oil that leaked down into the cyclinders when I took the spark plugs out. My valve cover gasket still hasn't arrived so... there was no real way around that. I also didn't replace the spark plugs when I put them back in (couldn't stand to throw another set of NGK's in there to get fouled up by a bad valve cover gasket.

I also considered that perhaps I put too much tension on the alternator/power steering belt. I don't know if that would give me that pulsing (almost straining feeling) that it has when it's in idle.

The CAI sounds a ton different then my SRI did... a lot more of a "sucking air" sound then before. In general it sounds quieter than before.

Could it be that the timing belt, idler bearing, and tensioner need to "break in"?

Should I do another idle learn process on it and see if that has an effect on it? Especially since I've burned off most if not all of the oil that may have dripped down into the cylinder?

So... What do you guys think?

daewoomofo · Post by **daewoomofo** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 1:35 pm

it sounds like you might have your timing off a little bit, i think it mingt be your exhaust is opeming too late, you might have to take it apart again and retime it

JohnnyC · Post by **JohnnyC** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:42 am

You were right. It was off by 1 notch. My woo is now running great (better then ever actually).

hehe I no longer have a fear of changing the timing belt... hell... with the right tools I can probably do one in about an hour or so start to finish now.

Audacity Racing · Post by **Audacity Racing** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:49 am

glad you got it done up right. i told you it'd be ok if it was off by one (and noticeable), not to mention you can fix it easily

now make my website damn it

JohnnyC · Post by **JohnnyC** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:52 am

Yeah yeah. We'll get your website built! (and the other stuff we agreed on!)

kroz123 · Post by **kroz123** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:46 am

glad to hear that everything went OK

mrbnew · Post by **mrbnew** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:04 pm

Good job Johnny, how did you like those water pump bolts? Those things are always the worst part for me.

JohnnyC · Post by **JohnnyC** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:42 pm

mrbnew wrote:Good job Johnny, how did you like those water pump bolts? Those things are always the worst part for me.

Hehe... didn't mess with them at all. I didn't change out the water pump when I was in there. Yeah... I know... I'm rolling the dice on the water pump not going bad on me, but I have faith that it'll hold up for another 60k miles. I'll probably change that out with the next belt.

I also didn't use the backing up the water pump technique to get the belt on... I did it the brute force/pry back the tensioner method.

mrbnew · Post by **mrbnew** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:11 pm

You must have superman fingers. There is no way I could have done that.

JohnnyC · Post by **JohnnyC** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:34 pm

mrbnew wrote:You must have superman fingers. There is no way I could have done that.

Hehe... Well... that part certainly wasn't easy.

daewoomofo · Post by **daewoomofo** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 9:45 pm

mrbnew wrote:You must have superman fingers. There is no way I could have done that.

his finges have alot of "practice" if you know what i mean

(sorry bro i had to)

JohnnyC · Post by **JohnnyC** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:46 am

Yeah... My wife appreciates my nimble fingers too.