Removing A/C belt for timing belt? tensioner pulley bracket?

[Tiki2777]

I'm moving along with my water pump replacement, but I have no idea what to do after I have removed my PS stuff, alternator, motor mount, and water pump pulleys. The FSM, haynes, and chiltons all say remove the tensioner pulley bracket with the A/C drive belt and then the crankshaft pulley, but none of them give a good how-to anywhere on how to do this!

Help me, (FYI the motor is still in the car) I have no idea how to tackle this part (I even get how to do the timing stuff).

**Resolved, I got it.**

 

[jayson427]

Timing Belt VFAQ

follow this link and you should have no issues figuring the rest out.

 

[Tiki2777]

well you need to take everything off in front of the timing cover to take it off. i usually take all the belts off loosen the ac bracket then take off the crank pulley. take the timing cover off and anything else in the way and there you go.

Hmmm, you sound just like the manuals, because you aren't really helping me (no offense). I need to know HOW to, I can't see where to start in my engine bay. My timing side is coated in dried up oil, (im fixing it) and I have no clue where to go with which bolts to start with etc: for the AC bracket/tensioner pulley bracket. I have like i said, everything off but the crank pulleys and the ac belt/tensioner bracket, I even loosened up the crank bolts just a min ago.

 

[jayson427]

Hmmm, you sound just like the manuals, because you aren't really helping me (no offense). I need to know HOW to, I can't see where to start in my engine bay. My timing side is coated in dried up oil, (im fixing it) and I have no clue where to go with which bolts to start with etc: for the AC bracket/tensioner pulley bracket. I have like i said, everything off but the crank pulleys and the ac belt/tensioner bracket, I even loosened up the crank bolts just a min ago.

its all good i just woke up my bad. i posted a link that breaks it all down for you.

 

[Tiki2777]

Timing Belt VFAQ

follow this link and you should have no issues figuring the rest out.

Nope thats the problem, I can't figure out the AC bullshit.

The Vfaqs and manuals go from motor mount to magically ac belt and tensioner is off and now a picture of the crankshaft pulley removal (the easy part of course).

This image i just found is probably going to help me the most:

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[jayson427]

get that belt out of the way remove that bracket and work down to the crank pulley. you need to read that link or look at a diagram. iv searched all around everyone says the same thing read the vfaq

 

[Tiki2777]

get that belt out of the way remove that bracket and work down to the crank pulley. you need to read that link or look at a diagram. iv searched all around everyone says the same thing read the vfaq

I don't care what everyone says. You don't just magically pull the belt off dude.Luckily, the picture that I found was more than enough for me to figure it out. I hope that I can help others with this and I am going to post up a pic of this in the tech articles. Sorry, but you didn't help out at all, but thanks for trying, kinda.

 

[thereef]

... Sheesh -- I've read the VFAQ and managed to get it done, can you explain what you weren't seeing and what you did to get it done?

Glad you got it figured out, kinda.

 

[jayson427]

I don't care what everyone says. You don't just magically pull the belt off dude.Luckily, the picture that I found was more than enough for me to figure it out. I hope that I can help others with this and I am going to post up a pic of this in the tech articles. Sorry, but you didn't help out at all, but thanks for trying, kinda.

for someone that has 600 tech post sure should know this anyways. i dont specialize in 4g63's my bad i was just trying to lead you in the right direction and read what was posted by wisemen. that link i posted showed you step by step how to remove everything you were trying to do. not my fault you didnt comprehend the thread.

 

[Tiki2777]

for someone that has 600 tech post sure should know this anyways. i dont specialize in 4g63's my bad i was just trying to lead you in the right direction and read what was posted by wisemen. that link i posted showed you step by step how to remove everything you were trying to do. not my fault you didnt comprehend the thread.

Nope #### you you still didn't even read what you linked. Just because I have 600 tech posts doesn't mean shit about my experience with a timing belt procedure concerning specifically the A/C, don't pull shit out of your @$$.

... Sheesh -- I've read the VFAQ and managed to get it done, can you explain what you weren't seeing and what you did to get it done?

Glad you got it figured out, kinda.

It didn't show or explain how to remove the tensioner pulley bracket and there were no good pics or diagrams on it, but I found a good pic that helped. I doesn't help that my timing side of my motor is coated in caked on oil. (that's where most of the issue was, plus what i said previously)

 

[jayson427]

really man? i dont even own a 4g63 and i understood what to do from reading and referencing to the pictures and diagrams. sorry it didnt tell you bolt by bolt how to remove things. it should be pretty common sense to find bolts on a bracket and remove them. not bashing you but your calling me out so i must. your first post even says you know how to do the timing stuff? if this was true then you would know how and where the tensioner bolts are.

 

[Joethefallen23]

really man? i dont even own a 4g63 and i understood what to do from reading and referencing to the pictures and diagrams. sorry it didnt tell you bolt by bolt how to remove things. it should be pretty common sense to find bolts on a bracket and remove them. not bashing you but your calling me out so i must. your first post even says you know how to do the timing stuff? if this was true then you would know how and where the tensioner bolts are.

You don't own a 63....that's the point. Depending on how the belt is tensioned, that bottom bolt can be hidden from most viewing angles. Its a pain in the ass working with that tensioner especially putting it back on with the limited space. How do you know he's never done timing before? Perhaps the other 63s he's done timing on have had the a/c removed?

Hell I just went through timing this weekend. I've had that tensioner off 100 times now and it sill gives me trouble to this day.