[V8] Timing Belt Saga 2

[Kneale Brownson]

It has eight pages to describe removal of a bunch of stuff to enable
removal of the belt.   It tells you to drain the radiator before removing
the coolant hoses.  Regarding the distributor caps, it says, "remove both
ignition distributor caps".  

Seems to me if they felt it necessary to tell mechanics to drain the
radiator before pulling off the radiator hoses, they could tell you the
distributor caps are held on by bolts that can't be removed with the same
tool, but require using two different tools.



At 10:56 AM 9/8/2005 -0700, Buchholz, Steven wrote:
>... beg to differ ... 
>
>The details are included in section 15-30 of the manual ... it has eight
>pages just to describe the removal of the belt ... 
>
>Steve B
>San Jose, CA (USA)
>> 
>> My problems are in the details.  Like I didn't know the distributor
>caps
>> were bolted on.  Every other distributor I've encountered has some
>sort of
>> spring clip.
>> 
>> The manual says remove the distributors.  It doesn't say you have to
>take
>> off the engine cover and the filter housing.   It doesn't say that you
>need
>> two different socket set-ups for easiest removal.   That stuff may be
>> intuitive, but it would be nice to have some of those details included
>in
>> the otherwise fairly good write-up in the knowledge base.
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