Timing belt change?
02-22-2011, 06:55 AM
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Re: Timing belt change?
Do it yourself.Mimimum experience is needed to do this and its only a 2-3 hour job. Don't forget to go ahead and change your waterpump while the timing belt is off.
02-22-2011, 07:40 AM
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Re: Timing belt change?
If i should do it myself, where should i buy or what brand should the belt and waterpump be, i don't want some offbrand belt that has a limit of like 60,000 miles, and where should i go to learn the diy change
02-23-2011, 01:22 AM
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Re: Timing belt change?
If someone is asking where to have their timing belt done, telling them to do it themselves is BAD advice.
There's a reason someone is asking, because they don't know how to do it themselves. A timing belt is not a beginner's job and most people that think they know how to do them properly, do them wrong. 90% of timing belt jobs I do are fixing someone else's incorrect job, or fixing a problem caused by an incorrectly installed timing belt.
That said there's a very readable shop list at the top of the forum, I believe minimal literacy skills are required to read it.
There's a reason someone is asking, because they don't know how to do it themselves. A timing belt is not a beginner's job and most people that think they know how to do them properly, do them wrong. 90% of timing belt jobs I do are fixing someone else's incorrect job, or fixing a problem caused by an incorrectly installed timing belt.
That said there's a very readable shop list at the top of the forum, I believe minimal literacy skills are required to read it.
02-25-2011, 05:02 AM
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Re: Timing belt change?
Lemme tell you a story.
It was 2000, Osma was stilling in the planning phase and I had my first Plymouth Laser RS. About 2 weeks before I was supposed to be PCS'd to Germany, my Laser started to run like crap. The car had maybe 10% of it's power. It drove like a lawn mower. So I took my car to a shop, they changed a whole bunch a crap out in my car charged me like $400 and it didn't even fix the car. In fact, the took off performance parts with a warranty still on it and "threw them away" so they couldn't even give them back.
From that day forth, I decided they I'd do my own work. I made some BIIIIG mistakes but now some 11 years later. I can do anything that doesn't require machining.
It was 2000, Osma was stilling in the planning phase and I had my first Plymouth Laser RS. About 2 weeks before I was supposed to be PCS'd to Germany, my Laser started to run like crap. The car had maybe 10% of it's power. It drove like a lawn mower. So I took my car to a shop, they changed a whole bunch a crap out in my car charged me like $400 and it didn't even fix the car. In fact, the took off performance parts with a warranty still on it and "threw them away" so they couldn't even give them back.
From that day forth, I decided they I'd do my own work. I made some BIIIIG mistakes but now some 11 years later. I can do anything that doesn't require machining.
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