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I have been procrastinating this job on my S4s ever since I pulled all my intake/manifold/chargecooler and valve covers to powder coat them. I powder coated all the parts in a wrinkle red Ferrari type powder and they look great...along with coating a few other parts with a chrome powder coat that is nearly a mirror finish....and that is where the car has been sitting ever since. House projects combined with this timing belt job procrastination (which I have dreaded) has resulted in a year of my car being down.
So....I took this whole week off with the intent of catching up on various projects with the Esprit resurrection being part of it. Bought a gates blue belt and tensioner bearing a while ago with new belts and various o-rings gaskets so I could put everything back together...with my shabby paint peeling engine bay ready to look better than new.
Slowly but surely I worked through Travis' timing belt pdf (Thanks for that Travis) until I got to the part with the water pump return hose. This is the part where I know my engine has been untouched as far as the timing belt...the hose clamp on the water pump is on the block side and pointed diagonally downward oriented towards the block...and it is impossible to get at with even a small ratchet that holds a screwdriver bit/socket...not to mention you're working blind because of its orientation. I even had my wife coaching me from above telling me where to orient the ratchet hoping I could land it on the clamp and then loosen it enough to then push it under the hose with a screw driver but the block makes that almost impossible. The only thing I can think of is some Philistine at the Lotus factory oriented this clamp without an after thought as to getting to it withe engine in situ...I can't see how it could have been placed like this except with the engine out on a stand. If he oriented it facing the firewall with the clamp below the hose I would probably have it all wrapped up right now.
Anyone have any ideas on how to work around this or encountered the same thing? Can I just disconnect the hose from the other end where it enters the frame and then wind the timing belt around the hose that way? Because the frame is boxed off at the sides I cannot see if that is even an option. Remove the power steeering pump that is held to the block with all these bloody allen socket bolts in hope of getting more access?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...minus any "engine out" recommendations.
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Also...what is the general consensus on the Hz acoustic reading for the blue belt? 110 for new...or less? I saw some of Jim's youtube videos of the belt at 95 and it cavitated when revved above 2500...to the point it looked like it could possibly jump a tooth.
Tensioner bearing....can this be accomplished with heating the part in a oven and pressing it out and in with a vice or is a hydraulic press a must?
Thanks!!!
Paul
So....I took this whole week off with the intent of catching up on various projects with the Esprit resurrection being part of it. Bought a gates blue belt and tensioner bearing a while ago with new belts and various o-rings gaskets so I could put everything back together...with my shabby paint peeling engine bay ready to look better than new.
Slowly but surely I worked through Travis' timing belt pdf (Thanks for that Travis) until I got to the part with the water pump return hose. This is the part where I know my engine has been untouched as far as the timing belt...the hose clamp on the water pump is on the block side and pointed diagonally downward oriented towards the block...and it is impossible to get at with even a small ratchet that holds a screwdriver bit/socket...not to mention you're working blind because of its orientation. I even had my wife coaching me from above telling me where to orient the ratchet hoping I could land it on the clamp and then loosen it enough to then push it under the hose with a screw driver but the block makes that almost impossible. The only thing I can think of is some Philistine at the Lotus factory oriented this clamp without an after thought as to getting to it withe engine in situ...I can't see how it could have been placed like this except with the engine out on a stand. If he oriented it facing the firewall with the clamp below the hose I would probably have it all wrapped up right now.
Anyone have any ideas on how to work around this or encountered the same thing? Can I just disconnect the hose from the other end where it enters the frame and then wind the timing belt around the hose that way? Because the frame is boxed off at the sides I cannot see if that is even an option. Remove the power steeering pump that is held to the block with all these bloody allen socket bolts in hope of getting more access?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...minus any "engine out" recommendations.
Also...what is the general consensus on the Hz acoustic reading for the blue belt? 110 for new...or less? I saw some of Jim's youtube videos of the belt at 95 and it cavitated when revved above 2500...to the point it looked like it could possibly jump a tooth.
Tensioner bearing....can this be accomplished with heating the part in a oven and pressing it out and in with a vice or is a hydraulic press a must?
Thanks!!!
Paul
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