Has anyone changed their TL timing belt ? How long did it take you? Did you use an impact wrench to remove the crank pulley? Did you replace the tensioner and idler pulleys? Was there any trouble after re-attaching battery cable ? How long did it take?

Thanks DC

 

You don't need to remove the battery cable. You won't be messing with anything electrical. I just did a 03 Honda Pilot and it's essentially the same thing. Since it's your own car, I suggest you only replace the following:

- Timing Belt
- Auto Tensioner (you can reuse your old one if it's not leaking everywhere)
- Water Pump
- Serpentine Belt
- Engine coolant (Blue Honda Type-2 ONLY)

The oil seals, and idler pulleys can all be replaced later if you ever start to have a problem with them later on (which will be obvious). That's the bonus of doing it yourself. You can always get back in there again next time, and it will be 10x easier. Mechanics always recommend you do ALL of those things at once because they don't want a pissed customer that has to pay another $500+ dollars to pull everything apart again. If you can do it yourself, it's just an afternoon's worth of work...

As for the crank pulley, it's VERY rare to get one off with an impact gun. Your best bet is to buy the $25 50mm crank pulley holder tool, a large breaker bar, a 1/2" ratchet w/ short extension, and two pipe handles (cheater bars). Use the pulley holder w/ the breaker bar and one pipe handle. Then use the 19mm socket, short extension, 1/2" ratchet, and other pipe handle on the crank bolt. It will take all your strength and then some to get that sucker off. Make sure the crank tool is fully seated before you start torquing or it will slip out and scare the crap out of you.

BTW: It is wise to have a friend there to back you up. Pull of the drive belt while you hold the tensioner back. Hold the timing belt on the cam gear while you bolt down the new auto-tensioner.

A big C-clamp is good if you plan on reusing your auto-tensioner. You will use it to push the piston back in and then slip an allen wrench through the hole to hold it in place. The Auto-tensioner will ONLY bolt in place if you have ALL THE SLACK of the timing belt on the tensioner side. If anything is off by even one tooth, you won't be able to get the tensioner in it's spot...

BTW: Here's my writeup on HondaTech for the Pilot. It's pretty much the same except you don't have to worry about removing the Power Steering pump or taking the oil dip stick off: http://www..com/showthread.php?t=2643497

Here is the tool you will definitely need:
http://www.amazon.com/Powerbuilt-648...4366636&sr=8-1

 

That HondaTech link is FUBAR'ed....

 

Well for some reason, this website is not friends with HondaTech, so they won't let you link to their webstie (or even post their full name/url). Here is the link to a search on Google. Hopefully this one works. I would go back and edit, except these retards on this site don't let you do that either...

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=...ca7b2e99206b9c