Talk to to a salvage part retailer. The staffs are quite good. They'll know
which pulley would fit.

I've never change a timing belt on an engine with balance shaft, so I don't know
how easily it could be turned. On all timing belt jobs I did, I always checked
the alignment. It didn't matter if any of the parts moved or not.

KWW wrote:

> 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?