I am thinking of looking in some junk yards for a replacement pully. If I
found a later model Honda 2.2L motor, wouldn't that pully and bolt be the
same? Our '97 Odyssey engine looks identical except for the differently
configured timing belt cover.

It just so happened that I was 1/4 mile from a Honda dealer when the pully
went. They initially thought it would be $130 to fix it, but he obviously
looked up the wrong part. I got a call back later that the pully itself is
$250 and that the bolt holding it, the belts, and the timing belt cover
(which I saw had a slice in it from the main PTO belt) needed to be
replaced - and they wanted $750 for it. YEAH, RIGHT! (They said it was
about the same as what they had to do for a timing belt replacement.)

Well, when I had adjusted the valves recently I inspected the timing belt
and it looked fine. Although, with 145,000 miles on the car, and the front
end off the motor, I might as well replace the timing belt, balancer belt,
and water pump anyway. He mentioned that they would "inspect" the timing
and balancer belts, so, between that and the fact that he didn't mention it,
I would assume that the $750 didn't include these parts. That would bring
the price up closer to $1000!!!

Well, I guess I will venture into the task of replacing these two belts
too. I sort of wonder, if one carefully doesn't move the position of the
gears and quickly places the new balancer belt (and timing belts) onto the
car, can one get away with short cuts from the manual procedure? (Probably
not, right?)

Thoughts? Opinions?
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KWW

"Sean Dinh" <seannydinh@znet.com> wrote in message
news:40776596.11C0A3DC@znet.com...
> Crankshaft pulley has band of rubber between the hub and the grooves to
reduce
> harmonic vibration. In this case, the grooves separated from the hub. His
only
> course of action is to replace the whole pulley. This rarely happens.
That's why
> we don't hear much of it.
>
> btw, lighten pulley usually has no band of rubber to isolate the grooves
from the
> hub. Vibration from the pulley would destroy the crankshaft bearings fast.
That's
> why we don't advocate using cheap lightened pulley.
>
> "'Curly Q. Links'" wrote:
>
> > You didn't mention how long ago it was done, but the person who did your
> > timing belt didn't tighten the bolt nearly tight enough. At least they
> > didn't use LockTiTe (which is a no-no).
> >
> > Good thing you shut it down quickly. The key is probably lost, and
> > timing belt may be damaged. You need a good mechanic to look it over and
> > put it back together correctly.
> >
> > 'Curly'
> >
> > ===================
>