scruff123 wrote:what do people use as a wieght for tensioning the timing belt?
The first time I changed the timing belt on mine (4JB1TC) I just grabbed the bathroom scales, weighed up a few bricks to get the right weight (9kg) then tied them together with a length of cord and tied that to the tensioner. Gave the belt a 'tweak' or two to get it level and did the bolts up.
Second time round went up market and got one of those cheap electronic fish scale things off fleabay and attached one end to the tensioner and the other end to the bashplate with a small bottle screw and then tightend the bottle screw up until I got the reqd 9kg