iam7head

At 105k, and 7 years i changed the OEM drive belt today.
I ordered a set of Gatorback Goodyear drive belt at kragen(it was out of stock everywhere in socal) for a hair less than 30 buck out the door.(Goudy honda wanted 76+tax for the OEM belt, majestic honda was 50+tax+shipping)

Gatorback is awesome belt with a bargain price, i used it for many of my customer's cars and 3 of my family's car without any complaint. it's also vortex's supply belt for the SC.

The job took less than 15 minute, you could seriously done it faster if you don't have a strut bar like i do. This is the thing i removed in order to get the belt out:

strut bar
air box lid
air filter
air intake arm
2 vaccum lines on the emission device

You don't really need to take the whole air box away to swap the belt if you don't have a butcher's hand. the only tool it need for the job was a 10mm for intake arm clamp and a 14mm wrench(and a cheater bar if you are sissy)

the belt came out with a 14mm wrench unloading the tension on the autotensioner by one hand and the belt slip off just like that. It's the one of the cleanest and faster belt swap i ever done. Checked the roller and tensioner and they are all within spec and good working order.

here are some pictures of the belt, there is some very very minor chipping/cracks on the grooves, little bit of yellowing on the belt. It coule easily go another 30k without a problem just by the look of thing.





The funny thing is i changed my sister's 2000 celica GTS' drive belt couple days earlier. It took me a good 4 hours to get the job done with a help of friend.
this is what we took off in order to get the belt. it cost more than my belt for some reason, it was around 36+tax

2 piece motor mount(6 bolts total)
bracket for the AC and PSlines(since it's all in the way)
autotensioner
engine bay cover
lower engine bay cover

there's about 2 inches of working room there, 2 a/c line was in the middle, the powersteering line was there, the cruise control line is there. The autotension will not go back in without a 5 foot cheater bar on the pivot point and a pry bar. oh, did i mention there's about 2 inches of room to do all the work in? it's worse than the VW aeg timing belt job that require lowering the motor

thanks yamaha/toyota

CLIFF: honda>>toyota

QuikSilver00

How do I know that I need to change this? I have 116k on mine and I haven't done this yet.

iam7head

honda didn't really have a time table for the belt, it just 30k inspection, replace if it's cracked, stretched, damaged or making noise.

117k should be a good time to do it, i mean it's only 30 bucks and very easy and fun thing to do. if the drive belt snap you will not able t drive the car at all(although no motor damage)


CHECK:

cracks
tension/stretch on the auto tensioner
roller(check to see if it's working smoothly and spinning quietly)

JonBoy

Isn't Toyota using timing chains these days, so that you don't have to change out a timing belt?

If so, Toyota >> Honda.

Glad you could change it out so quickly, though. I'll bet a dealership says it takes six hours or something.

iam7head

come by with part and i could do it for you for a meal or any spare part i could use

iam7head

drive belt not timing belt bro.

the 2zz yamaha is using chain for timing but good one belt for drive/accessories/serpentine belt

consider this, i can do a timing belt job in a honda faster than a drive belt on a celica, that's how bad the yamaha/toyota design is

JonBoy

Doh. Missed that.

Eluded

you gotta stick with true Toyota classics

RACER

The S2k have a timing chain

JonBoy

I think the S2000 is the only modern Honda with a timing chain, though. Toyota is using it on a number of vehicles.