kyle23

Hello all I am doing this timing belt water pump job on my 97 vg33. Water pump install went smoothly and now I'm just having a little trouble getting the new belt on. I just can not get the tensioner on with the new belt on. I tried putting the tensioner on first and still the belt did not fit over the gears. In the 1A auto video he makes it looks so easy and yes when trying to put the belt on I have all the marks in the correct position. I thought maybe it was the wrong belt so i put the old one on and still couldn't get the belt to slide over the tensioner. Also in two of my attempts of getting the belt on the passenger side cam moved and when I tried putting back into place the gear jumped 90 degrees, I'm really hoping I didn't bend a valve or something. Any help is appreciated, getting this vehicle in good road condition has been a pain in the behind but I'm determined to get it fixed.

Hello all long time lurker here and this is my first post. Im doing the water pump on my 97 Pathfinder and everything was going gravy until i got to removing the harmonic balancer. I got the puller tool from the parts store and the correct M6x1.0 bolts and when doing the initial pull I will admit I think I might have had it cockeyed or not lined up correctly as instead of the pulling the balancer off it went to one side and pulled one of the bolts right out! Now when I thread in the bolt it goes in ok initially and then at the end just gets super loose. I ran a M6x1.0 tap through and it didn't really change anything. So now I cant use the puller as the one bolt will not get tight and also I noticed as im tightening the bolt it seems to effect the lower timing cover and pushes it back until it gets loose then the cover pops forwards. Has anyone encountered this problem? If so how did you get around it? I am thinking of just retaping the hole with a slightly larger thread but im afraid i damaged something internally as it seems the bolt just makes contact with the cover. any advice is appreciated thanks!