Timing Belt Change

Brian Devlin bdevlin at stanford.edu
Wed Nov 7 20:36:53 EST 2001


I like to have a carefully calibrated female stand on top of the
cheater bar when I do this. But you really should make sure she's the
correct weight.
-Brian

>
>So I got a piece of pipe 4 feet long, stuck it over my 1/2" breaker bar, and
>using my carefully calibrated forearms, applied 80 pounds of push to the
>bolt.  4x80=320.  Remember that a foot-pound is measure ONE foot from the
>bolt - so extending the point of force over a measured distance can work.
> Was I precise?  No.  Did it matter? Also no.




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