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LOL loved the videos I never could figure out how to use that puller tool... ended up using 2 pry bars and bent my lower cover a little bit... lesson learned: don't use pry bars to get the balancer off xD nothing my trusty hammer couldn't fix though ^_^ and just checking -- is it 41 teeth, or 41 'wells' in between cam markers O.O the little piece of paper that came with my napa belt few weeks ago told me 40 teeth I'm just curious, because I dont really fell like taking the whole deal apart again if I don't have too XD

haha my ex girlfriend's '87 Jetta had the same issue. I just assumed it was a pos and never really looked into it to much O.o

Install was pretty smooth. Drilled 2 holes in the steel plate for mounting, 3" apart. Used my eyeball to drill the first hole, then once I had the light mounted with one screw, I used a sharpee to mark the 2nd. I utilized an original hole already there to feed the wires through (was about 3/16") As for wiring, I just cut off the ground connectors and spliced them entirely into the factory harness I couldn't find the exact ones I used, but they're pretty similar to these The LED's are way brighter than the original incandescent light bulbs that were there before

ALRIGHTY, so after being pulled over the same day I started driving this beast for not having functional signal lights up front, I picked up some nifty LED markers from Part Source for $10 each and mounted them up. A nice little improvement

ok, looks same as mine. must have been swapped in from a '94+ then pardon the dirt xD

I believe round tooth is the newer style 105k interval belts while the square belts are the older 60k -- as far as I've come to understand anyway. I still have my top cover off, I'll take some more pics today and show what I have

argh, I gotta get a hold of Nick -_- I vaguely remember him saying there was only 15k on the motor since it was swapped in can't remember what the year was that it was pulled out of... and I threw the old broken belt away like.. a month ago and wasn't paying attention:(

lol well... it has a gasket now XD I wish I had thought about those zip ties earlier, I'll have to remember for next time! my pathy's a '92 but... a round tooth belt meshed perfectly O.O are the square tooth and round tooth belts interchangeable?? Nick threw in a lightly used round tooth belt when he sold me the pathy, I gave it a try after the new square tooth one I bought kept skipping teeth and making my life miserable while trying to install it >_> OH, and I couldn't really remember where the spring on the tensioner was suppose to sit so... i put it here is all this right? just... so I know before I bolt it all back together tomorrow haha Precise, I'll probably do the same thing before i bolt it all up, but it was getting realllly windy and starting to rain by the time I got the belt on today, but that's the same order I went about getting it on too

www.nissannut.com/maintenance/vg33e_upgrade **bookmarked for future reference!** I miss having vg33e power xD

Well, I've been procrastinating quite a bit, but I finally was able to put in some work. Took everything apart, changed out the water pump and tensioner, as well as pulled the rad out and hosed all the dried mud out of the fins (there was ALOT) and reinstalled it. All that's left now is to install the new timing belt which... is proving kind of tricky I swear I need 4 hands to pull this stunt off XD I get the belt positioned on the crank, and then I'll get it on one of the cams while ratcheting into position, then fight to get rid of the slack on one side and get it where I need it so I can get it on the other cam while trying to get that cam in position, just to see that the belt had come off the crank and skipped 3 teeth >_< I gave up after about an hour of this -_- I had the new tensioner on, but I tightened it so I would have as much slack as it would allow, would it be easier to install the new tensioner AFTER the belt is on? Yes, I read the How To, I know what I have to do, it's just DOING it that is proving problematic. Also, while replacing the thermostat I realized that it hadn't come with a new gasket... I went ahead and made a gasket out of a cigarette pack and spray tack, as well as put a tiny bead of black gasket silicone type sealer around the thermostat before I threw it in, so I'm pretty confident that it will hold. ONE MORE thing, slightly off topic... without realizing, I was able to turn the crank with a wrench while it was still in 1st gear... is my clutch gone O.o?

304000km on my '92 there was 198000km on the R50 before it died... the good die young XD