timing belt on a 98 isuzu trooper?

Question

I am a technician going to change a timing belt on a 98 trooper and wandering if anyone has done this before and has any pointers or special information I should know.

Answer 1

Actually your about to do one of the easiest timing belts around. Use Isuzu belt and real isuzu waterpump cam and crank seals and of course while the three drive belts are off put new ones on. Turn the #1 timing mark on the crank to the pionter you might have to turn the engine one more revolution Look for marks and use white paint ot typwriter corection fluid to indicate the marks and posistions of the two cam sprockets left and right mark the cover behing the sprocket as well. Isuzu belts have marks that line up with the cams and crank marks retension the cam and reassemble really easy it would not hurt to print the procedure from ALL DATA or Auto-Zone

Answer 2

98 Isuzu Trooper

Answer 3

You have a timing belt driven water pump which should be changed at the same time along with the tensioner pulley. According to Gates, you do not have an interference engine, so you could choose to just run it until the belt breaks instead of replacing it now.


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Answer 4

A timing-belt warning-light. Well, that's a new one on me, never heard of one of those before. If it is a timing belt warning light, I'd get the timing belt checked and/or changed pronto! If that belt breaks then you are going to see mechanical mayhem on an absolutely wallet-bending scale. You could easily destroy your engine as the pistons slam into the valves, breaking cams and smashing bits of metal into the head...... Get it seen-to.... NOW!!

Answer 5

You're the "technician"--why the hell don't YOU know?
Ask the nearest grown-up for help.

Answer 6

Look in your service manual.