XterraGT
Bought an X
- Location
- Red Lion, PA
Timing Belt Job Complete, Questions answered. Thx
This thread may be warranted, may be unwarranted, mods feel free to move or whatever needs done.
Started my timing belt job tonight to get a good jump on it. Ran into an issue with removing the crank bolt (imagine that). My major question is:
I have a MT. It is my understanding I just have to put that sum***** in gear and I should be able to break loose the bolt and also then properly torque it on the backside of the job. I have the motor stripped down to where I wanna break her loose and pull the pully and covers and so on and so forth. So I started soaking the bolt last night when I parked the truck in front of the garage, pulled the factory skid, and soaked it several times while organizing things in my garage to be ready so tonight I can jump start the job and be moving solid into saturday.
Fast forward to tonight, I eclipsed my goals for the evening of draining the radiator and being ready to start removing components saturday. Got it down to the covers and pulley. With wheel chocks on the rear, parking brake full on, tranny in gear, and I can still turn the motor backwards (went till the rotor was almost all the way to 6, not just a little hair). I returned it to TDC, and proceeded to move it forward but the truck catches it like it should. Am I doing something wrong here or does my clutch suck that bad? I tried 5th and 1st. Truck is facing slightly uphill with chocks on both sides of right rear tire.
I have an impact ready but didn't wanna kick the compressor on at 9PM, if I was home alone I'd care less and still be out getting PO'd I'm sure. BUT since I'm ahead of schedule I figured I'll stop and seek advice and KCCO before I get mad at her. I've had poor luck with this Husky impact in the past so I'd prefer to use a breaker bar, and prefer to not fall back on the breaker bar + starter method unless its a must.
Also is there any possible bad things by turning the motor backwards that far? My luck I managed to damage an oil pump or something...
Any help will be greatly appreciated, thank you in advanced. And the 5 pics I've taken can be seen in my build thread in sig.
-TJ
This thread may be warranted, may be unwarranted, mods feel free to move or whatever needs done.
Started my timing belt job tonight to get a good jump on it. Ran into an issue with removing the crank bolt (imagine that). My major question is:
I have a MT. It is my understanding I just have to put that sum***** in gear and I should be able to break loose the bolt and also then properly torque it on the backside of the job. I have the motor stripped down to where I wanna break her loose and pull the pully and covers and so on and so forth. So I started soaking the bolt last night when I parked the truck in front of the garage, pulled the factory skid, and soaked it several times while organizing things in my garage to be ready so tonight I can jump start the job and be moving solid into saturday.
Fast forward to tonight, I eclipsed my goals for the evening of draining the radiator and being ready to start removing components saturday. Got it down to the covers and pulley. With wheel chocks on the rear, parking brake full on, tranny in gear, and I can still turn the motor backwards (went till the rotor was almost all the way to 6, not just a little hair). I returned it to TDC, and proceeded to move it forward but the truck catches it like it should. Am I doing something wrong here or does my clutch suck that bad? I tried 5th and 1st. Truck is facing slightly uphill with chocks on both sides of right rear tire.
I have an impact ready but didn't wanna kick the compressor on at 9PM, if I was home alone I'd care less and still be out getting PO'd I'm sure. BUT since I'm ahead of schedule I figured I'll stop and seek advice and KCCO before I get mad at her. I've had poor luck with this Husky impact in the past so I'd prefer to use a breaker bar, and prefer to not fall back on the breaker bar + starter method unless its a must.
Also is there any possible bad things by turning the motor backwards that far? My luck I managed to damage an oil pump or something...
Any help will be greatly appreciated, thank you in advanced. And the 5 pics I've taken can be seen in my build thread in sig.
-TJ
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