What's a fair price timing belt install or full 60k maintenance in 2018?
Dec 1, 2018, 12:25 AM
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Originally Posted by HoneyGreenTea
Did the full maintenance here in socal for about $700 at the dealership
Dec 1, 2018, 02:12 AM
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Dec 3, 2018, 12:20 PM
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Dec 3, 2018, 09:12 PM
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I'm still baffled by the comment. Its a non issue the passenger side motor mount is gone to remove the idler pulley anyway. You just remove one bolt at a time inside where the mount would sit as you spin the pump until you have all 4 off. Putting back on same thing and hold tension with a belt.
Dec 3, 2018, 11:04 PM
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I'm still baffled by the comment. Its a non issue the passenger side motor mount is gone to remove the idler pulley anyway. You just remove one bolt at a time inside where the mount would sit as you spin the pump until you have all 4 off. Putting back on same thing and hold tension with a belt.
Dec 5, 2018, 09:49 PM
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I'm still baffled by the comment. Its a non issue the passenger side motor mount is gone to remove the idler pulley anyway. You just remove one bolt at a time inside where the mount would sit as you spin the pump until you have all 4 off. Putting back on same thing and hold tension with a belt.
The whole design is wrong in my opinion. There's a flange on the end of the water pump the same thickness as the pulley material. Set the pulley in place and breath on it and it falls to the floor. There's no easy way to line up the holes. You hit one by luck. I eventually bought a wrench with a rubber strap to hold the pulley. Even then I spend half an hour on what should be a 5 minute job.
Last edited by barneyb; Dec 5, 2018 at 10:03 PM.
Dec 5, 2018, 10:54 PM
#26
I've done so many timing belt jobs on the 4G63 I could almost do it blindfolded. I've been driving cars with that engine since 1992. But installing the Evo water pump pulley always gives me fits. Maybe we just didn't hit it off right, I dunno. The second to last time I installed the pulley I had a missing bolt - got a spare out of my junk drawer. About a week later, after much driving the engine started squealing, the noise was coming from the water pump pulley. Pulled the pulley and there inside was the missing bolt. That explains why I couldn't find it after much searching. So, I got to install that stupid pulley yet again.
The whole design is wrong in my opinion. There's a flange on the end of the water pump the same thickness as the pulley material. Set the pulley in place and breath on it and it falls to the floor. There's no easy way to line up the holes. You hit one by luck. I eventually bought a wrench with a rubber strap to hold the pulley. Even then I spend half an hour on what should be a 5 minute job.
The whole design is wrong in my opinion. There's a flange on the end of the water pump the same thickness as the pulley material. Set the pulley in place and breath on it and it falls to the floor. There's no easy way to line up the holes. You hit one by luck. I eventually bought a wrench with a rubber strap to hold the pulley. Even then I spend half an hour on what should be a 5 minute job.
It would probably be easier if I could learn to stop dreading it so much and psyching myself out.
Dec 6, 2018, 08:53 AM
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I'm still baffled by the comment. Its a non issue the passenger side motor mount is gone to remove the idler pulley anyway. You just remove one bolt at a time inside where the mount would sit as you spin the pump until you have all 4 off. Putting back on same thing and hold tension with a belt.
