And how hard would it be to replace the timing belt, tie rods and water pump on a 1997 Eclipse GST. I might be grabbing a gst and i wanna know how hard and long this would take doing it by myself. Thanks aheadguys.

 

If you are an experienced mechanic I would imagine you could probably do it in about 6hrs. I have done timing belts on hondas before but the 4g63 has about half the room to move your hands in. I am experienced with timing belts but this was my first DSM timing belt and I think it took about 8hrs to do timing belt, water pump, balence belt but thats just me.

 

Good estimate ^^^

 

Iv done it on my friends gsx and you dont want to risk changing the timing belt etc. Like dorian said you have no room. You could lift the driver side of the engine and try but you could slip it out of time. Take it to a "certified" mit. mechanic if your not absolutly confident about attempting this.

 

Good call. If you mess it up it could mean the end of your motor.

 

K, good. That helps me out alot alot alot. Ill ask my boss tommorrow, hes a mechanic, ill see if he can do it for me. Thanks again guys :]

 

If you do it yourself get ready to have a "time" with the automatic tensioner!

 

well sence we are on the subject of timing belts i just did mine and now my car only idels about 100 rpms could this be beacuse i have the timing of one notch because when i changed it it looked like there were to marks on the crank shaft. i have all of the marks at tdc ecept for the crank i am just guessing that the big notch is the tdc mark anybody know what i am talking about

o and a picture of what that mark might looki like if anybodys got it