Margaret's Timing
Today Margaret came by to do some maintenance on her AccordLX. First i got the maintenance light to turn off. Hoorayy!! (it was easy)
Then I checked the engine chirp, which i felt sure would be the water pump, but it turned out to be coming from the A/C compressor. I dont believe it could cause catastrophic failure, even if the compressor eventually goes out. It spins freely & w/o endplay or runout... just chirps occasionally.
Anybys... we decided to go ahead and do the T-belt and H2Opump according to scheduled maintenance, to avoid the catastrophic failure those parts can sometimes cause when they fail... especially on the Honda interference type engines like this.
It all went smoothly except...
the crank pulley would not budge, even with my air wrench which is rated at 600ft/lbs of reverse torque. After many trials and tribulations... I busted out the oxy/acetylene and heated that bad boy up. It slipped right out.
Here is the hot bolt. If you look closely you can see the smoke rolling off of it :)
Here's Margaret showing me much deserved worship ;)
And here's a top view of the T-belt & balance shaft belt under the timing cover.
The whole thing took about 5 hrs, about an hour of which was wasted between trials of failing to remove aforementioned bolt, and later, waiting for the thermostat to open up when i was otherwise finished.