Diesel Timing belt change

[robbo1959]

This has been a great thread to read and the person who started it and went ahead and did it well done..like me you will give anything a go...Well done when it comes to doing mine I will give it a go just like you did and the savings is out of this world.

Now if DBOR has fuel filters for the diesel JK that alone would be a saving.

I did the rear pads on mine and it only took 5 minutes each side pads were only $110.00 from Autobarn..plus they are now starting to get in some aftermarket stuff for the JK best thing is if they don't have it in stock they will try their best to get it for you.

[double black offroad]

Guys, I can get anything you need just got to put em on my site!!! Email me your enquirys!!!

[MightyMouse]

And finally a little about tensioning the belt.

The belt tensioner has a central bolt that locates and locks it up and a hexagon hole where you insert a Hex key to give you leverage ( no other function... ).

With the tensioner fitted, but not locked up, look up from under the vehicle and you'll see an inverted U shaped slot, in the tensioner base, pointing straight down.

Use the Hex Key to rotate the tensioner body and you'll see a steel pointer on the tensioner body move as you start applying torque. When correctly tensioned the pointer should align with the centre of the inverted U shpaed slot to within 1mm

When its set up - lock the centre tensioner bolt, and turn the engine over with a socket on the crank bolt a couple of times. loosen the tensioner centre bolt a little and ensure the pointer is still in the centre of the U slot. If it isn't just repeat the adjusting process till you get it right.

When its confirmed to be correct lock up the tensioner centre bolt - done !

You can set the tensioner as many times as is necessary so if it doesn't seem to work for you first time - there's no issue with doing it again ( and again ) till your comfortable with the process.

[North Coast Wrangler]

Thanks for the detailed write up.

But can I also suggest that seeing you are saving money going after market that you also replace the tensioner, genuine do a kit that has both i can supply price I'd needed, but if the tensioner fails you can be looking at a huge bill to replace the engine trust me vm is not cheap.

[MightyMouse]

Thanks - tensioners apparently are also available but the owner specifically wanted just the belt changed so that's what was done.

There's no doubt that different people are prepared to spend differing amounts on maintenance, some want to go even further and replace the water pump seal as well as, as well as etc...... Personally I'm not in favor of this unless your loosing coolant - i think there are some things better left undisturbed

But as i've said - given a moderate level of mechanical aptitude the DIYer can do a "belt change" with a VERY substantial saving over a dealer.

[DMAC]

Just ordered mine from DBOR too!

[RyanG]

Has anyone loctaed a manual on how to do this? i have found a few write ups, but they are for the Jeep Liberty (KJ Cherokee) is the timing assembly the same as the JK 2.8 CRD?