Timing belt replacement

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dreja Wrote:" One of us worked with the braker bar while the other held the camshaft sprocket in place with another wrench"

So when removing the CRANKshaft pulley bolt one held the CAMshaft with a wrench. One or both?

Yupz, one was busy unbolting the crankshaft pulley while the other holds the camshaft sprocket in place. But I am not to fond of this method as force is placed on the bolt of the camshaft bolt. I think the method of having someone sit in the car and press the brake paddel to lock the drive train would be best. The drive train normally gets the force of explosions to deal with, I doubt you can put more strain on it by hand

dreja Wrote:So the timing belt absorbed the force (the force was distributed from crankshaft to camshaft throught the timing belt)?
Helding the crankshaft instead of camshaft is perhaps not possible (no space for using 2 wrenches togheder on the pulley)?
Andrej

You can hold the crankshaft pulley in place with a big ass clamp or something, but you might damage the pulley. I remember lenner told me he did it that way when he replaced his timing belt. There isn't a second place where you could place a second wrench to hold the pulley in place.

And indeed, the timing belt pretty much takes the force in this way (although part of the force is also taken by the fact the car is in gear and on the handbrake). I wouldn't recommend doing that if the timing belt is to be reused. We offcourse were going to place a new timing belt on so if the belt had snapped, atleast we'd know for sure that belt really had to be replaced