[V8] Timing Belt Saga

[Buchholz, Steven]

... next time it will be so much simpler ... ;-)

... to be clear ... it is the A/C condenser which drops from the front
of the rad and hangs below the engine when pulling the core support.
The oil cooler gets dropped from its perch as well.  To remove the core
support you need to remove the tranny cooler lines ... 

Steve B
San Jose, CA (USA)
> 
> I did a timing belt on my 4kq with all that crap in front in place,
and
> then I did my 200q20v with a wide open front end and it was so much
easier
> to see/manipulate stuff that I figured I'd go at it that way.  I find
> replacing the serpentine belt on a V8 to be a struggle.  I just can't
> imagine my weak, old, fat body with short, hefty arms, being able to
do the
> entire TB project comfortably without removing the core support.
> 
> I DID manage finally to get that mess past the flanges on the ends of
the
> frame rails.  I took the oil cooler and A/C condenser loose from the
> radiator and let those hang, and that allowed me to yank the rest past
the
> flanges.  I'd have pulled the radiator, but there are the tranny oil
lines
> attached.
> 
> So, anyway, the front of the engine is more or less exposed now.  Not
as
> neat and nice as on the 200, but workable for me and my trifocal
glasses.
> 
> 
> At 03:59 PM 9/6/2005 -0400, cobram at juno.com wrote:
> >Kneale, I must have missed something, exactly WHY are you removing
all
> >this stuff that has nothing to do with the Timing Belt job??
> >
> >BCNU,
> >http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/
> >God's a kid with an ant farm, lady. He's not planning anything.
> >
> >
> >Kneale Brownson <kneale at coslink.net> writes:
> >> Guess I might as well start a new timing belt problems thread since
> >> the
> >> bumper cover finally came off.  I have the core support and all its
> >> ancillary parts disconnected but I can't "pull the front off the
car
> >> and
> >> lay it under" as described in the KB.  The stuff on either side of
> >> the
> >> radiator runs into the inside flange (the one for the one stud/nut
> >> that was
> >> my hangup on the bumper cover removal) on the end of the frame
> >> rails.
> >> There's what looks to be a notch in that stuff to accomodate the
> >> flange,
> >> but the fender attachment arms of the core support run into the
> >> fender
> >> before I can hoist the assembly high enough to clear the flanges.
> >> What a
> >> PITA this process is.