Emerald99

If I got myself an air compressor (the price of labor to do the swap, i figure i might as well get the tool im missing), can someone in the central NJ area help me do this swap? Thanks

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PreludeChick89

^^ do you have the proper wiring in your home (or location) for this air compressor? Just making sure! you don't want to blow your entire house circutry(?)

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Emerald99

I didn't know I needed a lot of special circuitry for it, I'll look into it, I assumed 120 VAC would be fine :/

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Tola

Am I missing something? Why do you need an air compressor to do an auto to manual tensioner swap? (I'm assuming you're talking about the timing belt tensioner?)

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Joon525

How soon are you planning on doing this?

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Daemione

I'm not sure either - I guess for the crank pulley bolt. Although I did mine without one. Just need the crank pulley holder tool, 1/2" drive sockets (or 3/4" ideally), and a crap-ton of leverage to break it free.

An air ratchet would speed up a few of the bolts - but honestly, not many. There's not enough space to get a gun at 95% of the ones you're dealing with on a timing belt job.

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Tola

There's definately not enough room in the timing belt area to use any air tools.

I've used all sorts of air tools from different shops. None of them were able to take my crank pulley bolt off. Take the money and buy a crank pulley older and some quality tools.

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JaXx4k

i've always just plug it into my wall outlet so far nothing blown yet...

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paulyg

$10 for a piece of 1" pipe from the local hardware store ftw.

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PreludeChick89

^^ we need a pic of Dave's pipe seriously, just a piece of pipe or some help from Ray

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