[slipjohn1]

I'm currently doing my belt. Bought a new Gates kit for $148 with free shipping. I made the "special" socket to pull crank bolt out of two impact sockets and it worked fine with 150 psi compressor(standard sockets don't usually work cuz they lose energy). My old belt also looks great, but looks are not everything. I was told by the dealer I could go 120k easy with it, but I don't wanna take chances. If you are mechanical, it's not a hard job, just takes time. I come from a mechanical family so I have been doing this stuff since my teens. I would like to ask though if someone knows the torque for crank bolt? I know it's up there, but my torque wrench goes to like 150 so I may need a new one for this job. Thanks

 

[slipjohn1]

Is this what you were looking for?

Also, 2. Has an additional 60 degrees of tightening.

Yeah, I found it in a video. I thought it would be tighter, but it is just holding on a pulley. I saw someone say something like 250 ft lbs, but no way. That would snap it so disregard that guy. My thinking was roughly around 60 ft lbs, but I kept seeing these big numbers so I had no idea. Thanks for the pic. I had a repair manual for my Pilot that would have helped, but can't find it.

 

[slipjohn1]

Finished mine today. My water pump was in excellent shape, but I swapped it out anyway. It was tough to toss a good Honda water pump and put in aftermarket, but I figured I'd better. The kit was a Gates kit and the idlers were the exact same idlers I took out. They were in tough shape. I did have one issue, don't know if anyone else did. When I took off timing belt the rear cam sprocket turned. I don't mean just a little I mean it jumped like it was under load. When I brought it back it would do the same thing the other way. Was a job keeping it right on the money. Got it all together and it's running great. The special crank socket I made myself worked awesome. I did have to buy the pulley holding tool, which btw is a pile of crap. It fits in all loose and isn't as snug as I think it should be. I used an angle gauge to do the 60° and it worked fine. It was hard to push, had to sit and use my foot, but all is well. Spark plugs are next. I didn't have them or I would have done it at the same time. Thanks again for that diagram of the torque for crank pulley.

 

[slipjohn1]

So, it appears my water pump is leaking. I was very careful to tighten everything just right. My thoughts are the aftermarket pump is just not as good as Honda and the O ring is leaking. I had a bad feeling about the O ring when I was putting it on. I may have to take this all apart. Hoping to find that I DID leave a bolt loose and that's it, but if I have to take the belt off I'm wondering about hydraulic tensioner. It's new so I'll reuse it, anyone ever do this? I have looked into compressing it very slowly and putting pin back. Anyone have luck with this? Thanks