In my country in Europe, when we are changing a timing belt, it is common to change also all the pulleys. I mean #18 for the timing belt and #10 for the balancer belt:



In the USA, I read everywhere that it's not common to change these, instead you usually change a water pump together with the timing belt. In EU, we usually don't touch the water pump unless it's faulty.

Is it true that it's not common to change the pulleys in the USA while doing the timing belt job?

 

There really is no need to change the pulleys as long as they move freely and are undamaged. We replace our water pump because thats what honda says to do. The shaft in the pump starts to get iffy around 60K miles I believe it was ?

OR i would highly suggest switching to a manual tensioner. If not, you need to replace the auto tensioner with the timing belt change. They do fail, and its not fun.

Skip the pulleys, replace the water pump, and belts. Do a full tune-up if you havent replaced plugs,cap, rotor and plug wires in awhile.

 

I replace pulleys every second timing belt change. And the water pump every change.
The water pump is known to start leaking just a few hundreds kilometers after timing belt change. I don't want to do the same work tiwce.

 

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The water pump is known to start leaking just a few hundreds kilometers after timing belt change. I don't want to do the same work tiwce.</TD></TR></TABLE>
What's common in Honda dealership in Poland?

 

well i read that the pulleys tend to have some play in them when the timing belt start to go this being the tension pulley and the water pump gear and when you change your timing belt you might as well change everything so it will fit together like new and be all tight so you wont have a new taught (sp?) belt on some loose pulleys

 

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What's common in Honda dealership in Poland?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Just like described above. Friend of mine is one of the best Honda mechanics in my country and he told me to do that way. It came out of practice.