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Originally Posted by tommy t4
There is an even easier way if you not confident in changing the belt and getting the timing right, if you cut the timing belt along its length in half (not width) as you crank the engine over on the crank pulley, so your left with half the belt on the pulleys simple push the new belt half on so it's touching the half of the old belt on all the pulleys, then carefully cut old belt of along its width, and then push and slide the new belt fully on........
No timing to do as it has stayed in time perfectly and literally half the time
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That is an absolutely amazing idea, definitely doing that, especially as 2 colleagues cars at work have both broken their belts in the last 2 weeks, luckily they were both GM diesels and suffered nothing more than broken rockers (designed to snap) I'm still taking it as an omen.