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My timing belt (Nissan) was $98

BUT the labour was $220...god knows how many hours that was, or how much they charge per hour...maybe i got ripped?? :( who knows..

If u only have to buy the belt and can do it yourself...much cheaper!

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Sounds a pretty good price, considering they have to pull the front of the engine apart to get at the belt. All the belts need to come off, the timing cover, crank pully, fan, water pump, the CAS, and then it all needs to be put back. And they probably need to remove the radiator.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Thanx PPls.

I am trying to do the water pump at the moment and the bottom black cam belt cover wont come off.

Thanx Blind_Elk ---

Obviously I have to pull the crank pully off.. damn.

I am going to definately do a cam belt while I'm there..

damn its such a big job.

I tell you a few spanners hammers and tools have been thrown around today. with lots of cursing..

:D

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Yep. Adj. Cam Gears.

For My R32 because I can do both the inlet and exhaust i should pick up at least 15rwkw.

they range from $400-$600 A pair.

For the R33 Btw due to the vct you can only shove one on. Maybe 10rwkw?!?!

I am going to get the waterpump/cam belt done by some one.

its quite a big job and worth the $200.

I'm also getting Adj. Cam Gears done at the same time and am seriously looking in to fitting a set of cams at the same time.

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Joel I was goint to do the water pump myself untill i pulled the top cam belt cover off and saw what was involved. is probably not that hard but dont like risking thinks like that. I think you need to be carefull when taking the harmonic balancer off, apparently some come off easy and some take forever, this is what tillbrook said.

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