The manufacturing unit in addition to the 2001 Toyota Camry owner’s guide means that the timing belt substitute be completed each 90,000 miles. An examination of the service data for this specific engine signifies that this mileage estimate demonstrates the timing belt’s helpful life. Toyota additionally states that this can be a freewheeling engine, so in the occasion of a belt failure, the odds of engine injury are negligible.
Toyota Camry Change the Timing Belt Instructions
Disconnect the negative terminal on the battery utilizing a wrench. Increase the front of the automobile, and help it on jack stands. Remove the passenger facet wheel assembly utilizing the lug wrench. Remove the inside fenderwell splash defend utilizing a ten-mm socket. Loosen the accent belt tensioner with a wrench, and take away the belt.
Remove the bolts securing the alternator utilizing a 14-mm socket, and take away the alternator however go away the wires hooked up–simply transfer it apart. Place the ground jack below the engine oil pan to help the engine. Remove the passenger aspect higher engine mount utilizing a socket. Remove the engine torque strut from the radiator-aspect lower a part of the engine utilizing a socket.
Remove the higher timing cowl utilizing a ten-mm socket. Flip the crankshaft clockwise, and align the timing marks on the crankshaft and camshaft in preparation for remove the belt. The crankshaft pulley has a V notch in it that should align with the 0-degree mark on the timing plate situated on the timing cowl at the 2 o’clock place. The camshaft sprocket has 5 spokes, one which has a gap in the sprocket, which should be positioned straight up.
Remove the crankshaft pulley bolt utilizing the breaker bar and a socket. Remove the crankshaft pulley. Remove the lower timing belt cowl utilizing a ten-mm socket. Remove the timing belt information washer on the crankshaft. Loosen the timing belt tensioner bolt, push the bolt away from the belt and loosely tighten the bolt to carry the tensioner in place. Remove the timing belt.
Install the new belt beginning on the proper facet away from the belt tensioner, preserving all the stress on this facet so the slack in the belt finally ends up on the tensioner aspect. Begin at the crankshaft sprocket, and route the belt to the within the loafer pulley, to the outdoors on the water pump, round the high of the cam and to the inside the tensioner and round the outdoors of the oil pump.
Loosen the tensioner bolt. Permit the tensioner to function and apply rigidity to the belt. Install the crankshaft bolt briefly. Flip the crankshaft clockwise two full turns and re-examine the timing marks. Tighten the tensioner bolt securely. Install the the rest of the elements in reverse order of removing.
[taken from ehow.com]
