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I replace my belts every year in January when there is a weather problem with going to track events. Like you said, it's cheap insurance.
I have a MAF so I can get to the belts in 10 minutes. I remove about 12 cam cover bolts and one hose clamp and there they are. Once there, it takes me about an hour and a half for the cam belt and another hour for the balance shaft belt. I generally run the engine for a while with the housing off just to look at it. I also remove the plugs and turn the engine with a wrench before using the starter just to make sure.
Others might do it faster. I'm slow. Several times I have had the balance shafts move on me and have had to do that one twice. You know it right away if you slip a cog. But the cam does not have a tendency to move if you are at TDC.
Last edited by Lawrence Coppari; 08-22-2002 at 11:25 AM..
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