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| Timing belt too close to the main belt; 97 hatchback 1.0 3cyl | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 19 2013, 11:01 PM (658 Views) | |
| evadfa | May 19 2013, 11:01 PM Post #1 |
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I was changing the oil today and started looking at the engine. It looks to me that the Timing belt cover is too close to the main belt. I can see where the previous owner tried to "repair" it a little. I can also see that towards the bottom of the timing belt cover it looks broken. it is in two pieces. I am sure that this is not correct. I'll post pics tomorrow when it's daylight. My concern is if it is a one piece timing belt cover, hos do you get it on around the serpentine belt. |
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| scubaman | May 19 2013, 11:22 PM Post #2 |
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you have to remove the crank pulley, and water pump pulley. plenty on here on how to do that. |
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| evintho | May 19 2013, 11:45 PM Post #3 |
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I have the same problem on my '97 only the water pump pulley is actually rubbing against the timing cover. Makes a heck of a whining noise! I actually glued washers to the back of the wp pulley to space it out a tad. It helped a little but still making noise. I figure I'll address it when I pull the motor out a little later down the road. |
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| scubaman | May 20 2013, 08:26 AM Post #4 |
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usually there are missing bolts and usually the center one is missing causing the center to bulge out. which reminds me to locate a nut for mine that i recently lost. |
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| evadfa | May 21 2013, 11:15 PM Post #5 |
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Here is a pic of my timing belt cover. Looks like the PO tried to do a bit of fixing, or maybe didn't want to have to pull the pulley off to install the cover. [IMG][URL=http://s270.photobucket.com/user/8hawks/media/IMAG0105.jpg.html] [/URL][/IMG]definitely not right. I can see the timing belt through there. They even tried to silicon or put something where the water pump pulley and belt pass by. |
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