In case your Toyota Camry idles tough, is sluggish, clattering or backfiring, your timing belt in all probability wants changing. The timing belt retains your automotive’s crankshaft and camshaft valves opening and shutting in synch with the pistons. Checking and changing the timing belt frequently ensures its optimum efficiency. This is how to do this on a Camry with a 1MZ-FE engine.
Examine Your Toyota Camry Timing Belt
Test your proprietor’s handbook for the beneficial mileage for changing your timing belt. Alternative for a Toyota Camry is 60,000 miles for 1984 to 1997 type and ninety,000 for 1998 to 2004 type. Find the timing belt and study it for breaks, harm, fraying, worn spots or looseness.
Examine the belt for cracked or lacking enamel. It is doable that international materials collected between them. Decide if there’s injury on either side of the timing belt. Single-aspect harm could also be attributable to the timing belt’s information.
Toyota Camry Timing Belt Removal Instructions
Unscrew the bolts to launch the lower timing belt cowl. Disconnect the engine wire protector from the rear belt cowl. Remove the clamp holding the rear cowl’s engine wire protector clamp. Take the bolts off the front cowl and carry it from the engine. Line up the crankshaft timing pulley groove with the oil pump by rotating the engine to the best.
Make sure the camshaft timing pulleys and rear belt covers line up. You could have to rotate the engine one full flip. Undo the crankshaft pulley bolt and launch the tensioner and mud boot.
Toyota Camry Timing Belt Installation Instructions
Wipe off any oil or water on the pulleys.
Align the timing belt’s front mark with that of the crankshaft timing pulley’s mark and the timing belt’s set up marks with these on the camshaft pulley. Install the pulleys on this order: crankshaft, water pump, left camshaft, No. 2 loafer, proper camshaft and No. 1 loafer.
Compress the tensioner till the pushrod’s holes and housing align. Join the mud boot to the tensioner then tauten the tensioner’s bolts to twenty foot kilos (27 Nm).
Rotate the crankshaft to the fitting and line up its timing pulley groove with the oil pump. The camshaft timing marks and these on the rear timing belt cowl ought to match up. Put within the timing belt information and safe the bolts to 21 foot kilos (28 Nm). Safe the higher timing belt cowl to seventy four inch kilos (eight Nm). Reinstall the engine wire protector and clamp to the timing belt cowl. Change the lower timing belt cowl and safe the bolts to seventy four inch kilos (eight Nm).
Reconnect any remaining objects. Begin the engine and verify that the timing belt is functioning correctly.
[taken from ehow.com]