I had to persuade Maladar to work with my car, but right now, I'm thrilled! I've been doing something else and haven't had any time to work with the AW11, but Maladar has been busy with the car and sending pictures of his progress to me.
I got my first free night in ten days and we hurried to the garage, where Maladar had taken the thermostat housing apart, drained the coolant and gotten the crank pulley off.
I was amazed. Pulley had come off with little effort and some teflon grease, coolant was little smudgy but still looked fairly good. The old timing belt was showing marks of aging, but generally it was in better shape than I had imagined.
I took some pictures while we tried to remove the water pump, but I have to upload those later. For now, a picture of installed HKS timing belt.
