Stkykid84

hey guys so my girl has a 01 tl and the timing belt jumped 5 teeth and busted up the heads.. so im just swapin the motor out... but my question is this
-do i remove the engine harness from the engine sensors? or is it easer to unplug the engine harness from the other side of the fire wall and pull the engine with the harness attached?

i have the engine harness almost all off except the injectors which id have to pull the intake mani to get to....
so any one that has pull this engine before.. tryin to figure out which is an easer way to get the harness ..
thanks for the help guys!

acutee

I believe you remove the harness on the engine sensor; fsttms1 would have a better answer on this one.

How many miles do you have on the original engine?

Stkykid84

95k ish

fsttyms1

Pull it from the ECU through the firewall. Far easier.

6MTUA5

iTrader: (2)

That's what me and Joe did when we did mine. Just unplug from the ECU and keep the whole harness attached to the motor.

ChampionFiyah

"timing belt jumped 5 teeth and busted up the heads", this happens rarely right???

acutee

It must be a rare thing. Probably the tensioner failed.

fsttyms1

I havent seen one on this forum yet.

Stkykid84

ya what happend was acutaly the PS belt snapped... got rapped up around the crank pully.... melted the timming cover plastic and the plastic got caught ont he crank pully inside for the crank gear and caused the timming belt to jump 5 teeth.... yea....


so pull it from the ecu sweet... do i got to pull the dash for that ? or is ti somthing that i can see if i move something outa the way? where exactly is the ecu on the car? thanks for the help guys

ChampionFiyah

thank god, and good luck with your swap dude

Stkykid84

so pull it from the ecu sweet... do i got to pull the dash for that ? or is ti somthing that i can see if i move something outa the way? where exactly is the ecu on the car? thanks for the help guys

fsttyms1

The ECU is sitting on the hump in the floor kinda below the radio. If you pull the carpet back you will see it. Then from the engine compt side you will see where it goes thru (you will probably have to move the fuse panel under the hood to make it easier) there are 2 bolts that hold it there. Once those are removed you can disconnect it from the ECU and pull it thru the firewall

fsttyms1

Do it that way or you will have this mess that my neighbor was so kind to pose for with.