I am about to finish changing the head gasket on my stock D15B2. I need to loosen the tension on the belt so I can put it on the cam gear of course. I can see the bolt though the hole in the lower timing belt cover, but how the hell do you guys loosen it up? I have big *** hands, a normal 3/8 ratchet and normal 14mm socket. What would be the best way to get to this?

 

breaker bar or extension its not that hard just some common sense

 

for some reason I'm supposing your trying from the top... take the wheel and fender liner out and have at it.

 

I have the lower timing belt cover off and it's pretty easy to get to.

I can't get it with a wrench though, but a 14mm socket and a smaller socket wrench did the job fine, you don't have a lot of room though.

 

After scraping most of skin off my knuckles, I did it though the top. I figured that using a breaker bar would have been the easiest way, but I did not have a breaker bar at hand. Just what I had mentioned before, some big *** hands, regular ratchet and regular 14mm socket. Please bare with me as this is my very first Honda ever coming from Mercedes diesels. I think im going to love Hondas.

 

Yeh I scraped skin off on every finger today when I changed the timing belt, they all get infected too

 

infected??

dayum, I havn't had a cut get infected since I was like 11.

pour something that stings like a ***** on there, grit your teeth and you'll go away with a scar (for the ladies) and thats it.

 

move as much stuff out of the way on top. even then, you don't get many notches at a time with a socket wrench.