How many hours to change a timing belt?

Having changed the timing belt, water pump, and everything else that
touches the belt on my '95 Avalon, the job would have been very
straight forward if I had the special tools to hold the crank pulley
and camshaft pulleys. Rental of a 3/4" impact wrench, destroying the
camshaft pulleys, and the extra time needed would have paid for the
tools, but I could not locate them and had no way of fabricating them.

Tom

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
> "Ray O" <rokigawaATtristarassociatesDOTcom> wrote in message
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> > Of the 50 Toyota dealers I personally visited, only one charged separately
> > for the water pump when done in conjuction with the timing belt, and they
> > are no longer in business.
> > Ray O
>
>
> You personally visited 50 Toyota dealers? Physically went to those dealers?
> For what purpose, and where were those 50 dealers?

When he tells you, you'll respect his knowledge of Toyotas even more.

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> JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
>> "Ray O" <rokigawaATtristarassociatesDOTcom> wrote in message
>> newsf6dnRyA4dBG0OHanZ2dnUVZ_jadnZ2d@. ..
>
>> > Of the 50 Toyota dealers I personally visited, only one charged
>> > separately
>> > for the water pump when done in conjuction with the timing belt, and
>> > they
>> > are no longer in business.
>> > Ray O
>>
>>
>> You personally visited 50 Toyota dealers? Physically went to those
>> dealers?
>> For what purpose, and where were those 50 dealers?
>
> When he tells you, you'll respect his knowledge of Toyotas even more.

I probably will, but I'd still like to know.

tomit wrote:
> Having changed the timing belt, water pump, and everything else that
> touches the belt on my '95 Avalon, the job would have been very
> straight forward if I had the special tools to hold the crank pulley
> and camshaft pulleys. Rental of a 3/4" impact wrench, destroying the
> camshaft pulleys, and the extra time needed would have paid for the
> tools, but I could not locate them and had no way of fabricating them.

I ask some dealers if I could rent a pulley holder from them, but they
all said they didn't have any and that they used nothing but an impact
wrench. Since I didn't have the latter, I made a pulley holder out of
a 1/2" thick bar of steel and a couple of metric bolts (and broke 2
thread taps in the process).

Some people get the pulley bolt out by wedging a wrench between the
pulley bolt and the ground and blipping the starter with the ignition
system disabled, but I've heard it doesn't work with Honda engines
because they spn counterclockwise.