Doing the timing belt. What is a 65K miles old timing belt is supposed to look like?

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Old 02-05-2005, 09:17 PM
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Default Doing the timing belt. What is a 65K miles old timing belt is supposed to look like?

because the one on this 90 looks really good. It has 112K kms which is around 65K miles. There is no proof that the timing was done at 100K kms so I assumed it wasn't.

The accessory belt looked horrible with cracks all over it, but this timing belt looks pretty good. There are mark on the outside of the belt from the pulley, but they are not very deep and if the belt was done they look like a normal wear marks after 10K or not?

The teeth of the belt have a slight wear, like little marks in the middle from being squished.

The plastic cover that covers the right camshaft pulley is cracked on the very top. It is pretty hard to crack that cover if the front plastic piece is on and u gotta be doing some heavy duty work to crack it. Maybe when they were replacing the battery they hit it or something. Kinda wierd.

So do I change it or not? I don't have the special tool so I have to do it the "white out" way and not really looking forward to that.

The "pink" coolant was pretty brown when we drained it, so I guess that means that the water pump hasn't been done for a while or maybe they change just the belt and that would explain no replacement of the accessory belt.


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Old 02-05-2005, 09:23 PM
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just change them all
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