Thread: How to remove cylinder heads withouth messing with timing belt

Quote: Originally Posted by RTIS250 Well, i know what you were trying to do, and yes, ive done it before. Ive had a car come into the shop with a blown head gasket, and the customer didnt want to buy a new timing belt. So, you leave the lower part of the timing belt attatched, take the tensioner off and use a bungee cord to hold the belt up so it has tension and doesnt fall off the crank pulley. This way you can take the cam pulleys off (and...

Well the camshafts sits on top of the cylinder head. Are you sure its' the cylinder head you want to remove?

though I've never done a timing belt on a 96 ES, I can't recall any specific specialty tools needed for that specific job that you wouldn't need already in order to do head gaskets...

The answer is " You can't " because you have to remove the cam shafts to get to the head bolts.

One thing to add if you go that route, zip tie the timing belt to the cam gears and also mark with a grease pen at each pulley and on the belt.