Help!!!! 91 940 Turbo / B230F water pump / Crank pulley

Go to a hardwarestore and buy a screwdriver with a pickupmagnet. like this one :

Jan-Erik

If the transmission is a manual, you can put it in high gear and have somebody hold the brakes. Ours is an auto and I had a helper hold a screwdriver jammed in the ring teeth on the flywheel. Eons ago somebody posted a link for a genuine holder but I don't seem to have that link.

To break the crank bolt loose I put the socket handle on a floor jack and started lifting. The front wheels were nearly off the ground before the bolt started to give.

If you're going that far, consider replacing the timing belt.

Mike

I have previously had luck with sucking up lost parts with a vacuumcleaner and a smaller piece of hose ind the end of it.

Greetings Niels

OK, I used Michael Pardee's jack trick and broke the crank bolt loose, pulled the crank off, the lower half of the timing cover off, got the magnet and nut out, and bought a new timing belt.

Anybody have any suggestions on the right way to change the belt?

Or how to tighten the crank bolt? (it's an automatic) You mentioned holding a screwdriver in the ring gear teeth... is that from the bottom, the side, where?

Thanks too all for the help this far...

Mike

The belt is relatively easy, but you should really have the manual for this job, as getting it wrong will really break the engine. You need to match up the white dot on the gears with the lines on the belt and the fixed marks behind the pullies. The bottom one is the hardest as you have to wrap the belt around the gear before fully lacing up, the gear mark is often on the washer so you have to keep that on, then the mark on the casing is difficult to find, covered in oil/dirt or just confising.

The tension wheel is lossened off at the start and compessed by hand and a small rod or screwdriver inserted in the hole which is exposed, then the tensioner can be removed. To reset slacken off and retighten to clamp bolt.

Remove the cover at the bottom in front of the bell housing to see the bottom half of the ring gear/flywheel. Working under the car on axle stands you can jam the ring gear with a screw driver against the bell bousing and torque up the crank pulley with the other hand. Take up the tension, that should hold the screw driver in place, then transfer that hand to the torque wrench, I think it needs 110ft.lbs but don't have my manual to hand.

-- TOny

This is a non-interference engine (despite what some manuals will tell you) so getting it wrong won't break the engine, but it will run amazingly poorly, if at all, if you get it misaligned by even one tooth.