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Old 11-05-2007, 04:54 PM
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Re: 1998 CRV- Timing Belt Anyone?

Hi,
Just did mine (1999 model Year same as your's) at home. Nothing special except have to get the special tool to hold down the harmonic balancer pulley to retorque the bolt to 139 ft-lbs. (Pep Boys had it for $40). Looks like a 50 mm hexhead wrench that inserts into the center of pulley allowing you to hold it in place with a breaker bar while the 19 mm bolt is being torqued to spec. Get the writeup from Haynes. Buy a new belt, tensioner pulley , spring, and tensioner pulley bolt. I stripped mine (the bolt) 14 mm head while trying to loosen it to remove the belt. Main thing to avoid is after installing the new belt ALWAYS rotate the crankshaft bolt counterclockwise to seat the tensioner and cross-check the marks on the two camgears (both should be at 12 o'clock position and the arrows on the gears are pointing at each other.
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