Here's my timing belt swap story.
11-17-2003, 12:48 PM
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Here's my timing belt swap story.
Thank you for answering my previous quesions regarding the crankshaft bolt removal. 
The belt swap was finally complted after 36+ hours from the begining.
-On saturday 12 PM, we meet at my buddy's shop. First we drained the rad and headed to Canadian Tire to get some parts cleaner I forgot to buy.
Eat hot dogs and came back in couple hours.
-We take P/S pump out and drain some of the fluid.
-While we are at it, one of my buddy decide to paint some of his stuff. Who needs a painting suit when you can make one out of a garbage bag?
-Jeff complains that Neuspeed bar is on the way.
-We can't get the idler pully bolt off. Damit. we get creative and put some extention on the wrench. It Doesn't work.
-It's 4:20PM we have about an hour to work on because by 6:30, we had to be at downtown hotel for formal dinner party with suit on.
-Well, if we can't get the bolt off, we can't go on. We go to Canadian Tire again and grab couple more wrenches.
-5:00PM, We come back to the shop with new tools and work for half an hour then go home to get changed for the party.
-1:00AM, we come back to the shop from the party with our suits on and get changed to dirty cloths.
-2:25AM, we can't get the crankshaft bolt out. It is way to tight that my electric impact gun is useless.
I made this post short after that. " https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=679206
There's nothing we can do without an airtool so we went home at 4:00AM.
SUNDAY MORNING.
-9:30 AM. I'm sick and sleepy. I call my buddy to wake up and go back to sleep.
-11:30AM, I wake up and go to Home Depot to rent an airtool. They don't have it. Ok, we go to the tool rental place and find out they are moved to other location. So we go to the other location where this picture is came from. ****
-1PM, we try the local Canadian Tire to see if we can rent the special tool for the crank pully. Of cause they don't have it.
-2PM, we are at Candian Tire near my buddy's shop, yap they don't have it either.
We get foods from the hotdog stand and call hundreds of tool rental places for the airgun
-3:30PM we give up calling and drive around to see if any shop is open.
-4PM, my buddy walks into a performance shop and gets out with an airgun
-4:10PM we are back in business
-LOL, we uses the air impact wrench and the bolt comes out like a joke. This was too funny we laughed for half an hour.
Here it is.
-Look at my pretty valves
-Everything is off including the water pump. Now we can put new parts.
-We work hard. I was taking the picture so I'm not there.
The guy at the far left provided us with water when we were thirsty. Beside him, it's his brother. Their dad owns the shop. The guy on the floor did most of the job, he's the engine leader at UofT FSAE racing team.
-It's 12:50, my car is finally done.
We go for test drive and head home.
Modified by EL'ation at 7:44 PM 11/17/2003
The belt swap was finally complted after 36+ hours from the begining.
-On saturday 12 PM, we meet at my buddy's shop. First we drained the rad and headed to Canadian Tire to get some parts cleaner I forgot to buy.
Eat hot dogs and came back in couple hours.
-We take P/S pump out and drain some of the fluid.
-While we are at it, one of my buddy decide to paint some of his stuff. Who needs a painting suit when you can make one out of a garbage bag?
-Jeff complains that Neuspeed bar is on the way.
-We can't get the idler pully bolt off. Damit. we get creative and put some extention on the wrench. It Doesn't work.
-It's 4:20PM we have about an hour to work on because by 6:30, we had to be at downtown hotel for formal dinner party with suit on.
-Well, if we can't get the bolt off, we can't go on. We go to Canadian Tire again and grab couple more wrenches.
-5:00PM, We come back to the shop with new tools and work for half an hour then go home to get changed for the party.
-1:00AM, we come back to the shop from the party with our suits on and get changed to dirty cloths.
-2:25AM, we can't get the crankshaft bolt out. It is way to tight that my electric impact gun is useless.
I made this post short after that. " https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=679206
There's nothing we can do without an airtool so we went home at 4:00AM.
SUNDAY MORNING.
-9:30 AM. I'm sick and sleepy. I call my buddy to wake up and go back to sleep.
-11:30AM, I wake up and go to Home Depot to rent an airtool. They don't have it. Ok, we go to the tool rental place and find out they are moved to other location. So we go to the other location where this picture is came from. ****
-1PM, we try the local Canadian Tire to see if we can rent the special tool for the crank pully. Of cause they don't have it.
-2PM, we are at Candian Tire near my buddy's shop, yap they don't have it either.
We get foods from the hotdog stand and call hundreds of tool rental places for the airgun
-3:30PM we give up calling and drive around to see if any shop is open.
-4PM, my buddy walks into a performance shop and gets out with an airgun
-4:10PM we are back in business
-LOL, we uses the air impact wrench and the bolt comes out like a joke. This was too funny we laughed for half an hour.
Here it is.
-Look at my pretty valves
-Everything is off including the water pump. Now we can put new parts.
-We work hard. I was taking the picture so I'm not there.
The guy at the far left provided us with water when we were thirsty. Beside him, it's his brother. Their dad owns the shop. The guy on the floor did most of the job, he's the engine leader at UofT FSAE racing team.
-It's 12:50, my car is finally done.
We go for test drive and head home.
Modified by EL'ation at 7:44 PM 11/17/2003
11-17-2003, 04:16 PM
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Re: (Caveman74)
try doing a dsm timing belt now 
i did my b16 timing belt and h20 pump in 3 hours, by myself with breaks (and only hand tools!). it took my friend and i about 8 hours over 2 days for the dsm
Modified by dantastic at 5:32 PM 11/17/2003
i did my b16 timing belt and h20 pump in 3 hours, by myself with breaks (and only hand tools!). it took my friend and i about 8 hours over 2 days for the dsmModified by dantastic at 5:32 PM 11/17/2003
11-17-2003, 04:26 PM
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Re: Here's my timing belt swap story. (EG2 SiR)
Congrats man. The first time I canged mine the torque specs were wrong in the helms. Ended up having my crank pulley bolt fall off and had to get a new one. That and the keyway were like 12 bucks from good ol Honda, and the new bolt came with a note that the helms was wrong, and the correct torque settings. 
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11-17-2003, 04:34 PM
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Re: Here's my timing belt swap story. (EL'ation)
nice looking el man I'm gonna have to do this in a few days. I'm just so lazy and don't want to **** with it. I have access to an electric impact, but I guess I'm not gonna try that after reading this. So I'll have to get one of those snap on tools or just borrow an air impact. Damn the timing belt ****
I'm gonna have to do this in a few days. I'm just so lazy and don't want to **** with it. I have access to an electric impact, but I guess I'm not gonna try that after reading this. So I'll have to get one of those snap on tools or just borrow an air impact. Damn the timing belt ****
11-17-2003, 04:34 PM
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Re: Here's my timing belt swap story. (EG2 SiR)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by EG2 SiR »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I want an EL. How easy would it be to go to canida buy one, drive back and register it?</TD></TR></TABLE>
ive seen 2-3 El's in the bay area with cali tags. i guess it cant be that hard to register. domr importers import eurpean cars from europe to canada, then to the US.....
ive seen 2-3 El's in the bay area with cali tags. i guess it cant be that hard to register. domr importers import eurpean cars from europe to canada, then to the US.....
11-17-2003, 04:35 PM
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Re: Here's my timing belt swap story. (SOHC_MShue)
I just put a socket on it and a breaker bar and put a pipe over the end of that. Put it in gear and held the brake while my friend kicked it (240+ poud guy) and it snapped right loose.
11-17-2003, 05:52 PM
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Re: Here's my timing belt swap story. (EG2 SiR)
I am orgianly from Toront, Canada and brought my El here Chicago and had no probs to reg it here. The only thing that was a little prob was the insurance they didn't have my car in the data base of cars to quote it.
Other than that i had no probs.
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by EG2 SiR »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I want an EL. How easy would it be to go to canida buy one, drive back and register it?</TD></TR></TABLE>
Other than that i had no probs.
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11-21-2003, 11:16 PM
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Re: Here's my timing belt swap story. (SOHC_MShue)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by SOHC_MShue »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I tried doing mine tonight. Our air tools wouldn't even get the bolt off </TD></TR></TABLE>
Damn that sucks, I just used a cheater bar. (AKA big metal pipe laying in garage)
</TD></TR></TABLE>Damn that sucks, I just used a cheater bar. (AKA big metal pipe laying in garage)
11-21-2003, 11:17 PM
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Re: Here's my timing belt swap story. (sshaikh01)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by sshaikh01 »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i don't see any pics 
nothing but red X</TD></TR></TABLE>
Me too, but ill let that slide (Canadian you know )
nothing but red X</TD></TR></TABLE>
Me too, but ill let that slide (Canadian you know
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11-22-2003, 06:14 AM
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Re: Here's my timing belt swap story. (TeStUdO)
We tried one of those too. We slipped it onto the end of the ratchet and tried hammering on it. The Pulley would still turn with the bolt. Even if someone was stepping on the brakes.
11-22-2003, 10:07 PM
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Re: Here's my timing belt swap story. (SOHC_MShue)
i heard the best way to get that crank bolt off was to put a huge breaker bar on it, put it in fifth and have someone stand on the brake, and have someone else take off the flywheel cover and but a screwdriver in the teeth so the fly doesnt move.
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