Quoting: art b
shoulda gotta haynes manual too....
I've got one. I bought it when I bought the car 11 years ago. Unfortunately it wasn't accurate for the job I was doing, which led me to ad-lib and cock it up...
I was only changing the 20,000 mile old water pump out that has sprung a leak from the shaft seal. This is driven from the aux belt so I didn't foresee anything that would affect timing, otherwise I would have had it towed to a garage.
The good old Haynes manual didn't mention anything to do with removing the timing belt cover to gain access to half the water pump and its fixings, so I had to abandon it's instructions.
It had looked like the cover extended behind the crank pulley/damper, but only after the pulley was removed could I see it was a two part cover (makes sense really knowing what I do now
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The set-up is a close fit (not interference) on the timing pulley and the aux pulley/balancer. A single central bolt presses on the damper against the timing pulley and that against the crank. as soon as the crank bolt it loose nothing can be moved. I never considered it would be such a fragile set-up, as everything I've seen previously has been keyed or at least interference for timing I never even crossed my mind that removing the balancer would have such consequences....
