Re: timing belt questions

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <m0zwjza-000Js4C@post.cis.smu.edu> rjandrew@post.cis.smu.edu (R Justin Andrews) writes:

> IF you loosen the water pump It WILL leak....

> You WILL regret it I PROMISE!!

Yup - with a little wriggling even a properly tightened cam belt can be
worked off and on the cam pulley.

I concur with the leaks - once you loosen the water pump, the very
minimum you have to do is remove the thing, clean the faces, and replace
it using a new O-ring.  Thus the garage spares box should always contain
such an O-ring just in case.  Beware also that there are two sizes of
O-ring ...

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