Procedure is same for 2.3 n/a but this is a 2.3T engine sooo.
Fortunate it broke when and where it did. Not on eway, in isolated or bad area, on a rainy, cold day, night time, etc.
Was stumped at first why engine quit. Engine stalled driving 35 mph.
Tach was jumping trying to restart and sounded funny cranking over.
First checked coil connection, then overall look for blown engine or something read bad.
Then checked the timing belt by pushing back the timing cover. Way loose. Diagnostic done. Call for tow.
To Ford dealer? Local shop?. Nah tow it home. 10 miles, 100.00. Been there, done it. Had new belt in tool box.
Old belt i believe was Ford Motorsport M-6268-A221, lasted about 155k.
Pic of it is in 'What did you do to your 4 eye today 2019'.
New FMS belt is M-6268-A221 square tooth, stamped E5RE-6268-A2A GATES. Merkur p/n.
Replacing belt today. After opening hood, took 1/2 hour to get old belt off.
Hardest part was removing the fan to allow shroud removal to access everything better.
Fan bolts were no problem. Unbolted and pushed back shroud to get at them from front
Forgot to use antisieze on these parts. Fan, spacer, pulley, frozen to wp center bump.
Used Cyclo Breakaway overnite. Sprayed connection points, inside all holes from the front of fan.
Also backside of pump pulley at the wp hub.
Today, tapped all areas with short 2x4 block and rubber hammer. Success.
The crank pulley was next. Oh boy.
But 22mm bolt zipped right off with impact gun and pulley slid off by hand.
Thankfully, finer check confirmed i put anti sieze on the crank nose when rebuilding engine 20 years ago.
Total time to remove bolt, pulley, old belt was 60 sec.
Now to clean up engine area and parts, install belt. Repaint parts.
And use anti seize on the pulley-wp-fan assy, especially on the water pump button area. Just like on a rear drum axle hub.
All the belt sprockets still have my yellow index marks from rebuild in 1999, used to help align them for timing.
Belt tensioner is Cloyes brand and seems fine. Will change next time.
Am removing spark plugs to help time belt correctly per internet tips.
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