UDP Installation

[yellow2000S/R]

UDP Installation


Tools you'll need:

Floor Jack
18mm socket and ratchet
13mm combo or box wrench (The longer with more offset, the better)
8mm & 10mm combination wrench or sockets
Air Impact or cheater bar (to put over a ratchet).
1. Jack the car up

2. Remove the lower plastic splash guard that covers the fan belt area underneath the car. Bolts take a 10mm wrench.

3. With a 18mm socket (3/4" 6 point socket will work), remove the center bolt on the crank pulley. An air impact gun works best, but if you don't have one, here is a backyard mechanic way...

put the socket on the crank bolt, Slide a pipe (I use the top part of my floor jack handle) over the breaker bar or ratchet, then making sure that the bar is positioned against the floor at 7 o'clock position or better. Make sure it'll stay there on it's own... don't try to hold it there. Then, using the starter, crank the car over for a second or two. The bolt should now be on the floor with the ratchet BE CAREFUL!

5. Put a 13mm wrench on the center bolt of the belt tensioner pulley, and turn the wrench clockwise to relieve the spring tension against the belt.

6. Remove the belt.

7. Slide off the pulley.

8. Remove the plastic timing belt cover that's behind the crank pulley. It's 2 bolts, 8mm wrench.

9. Grind off the raised lip around the crank pulley opening. )I did this by rubbing the plastic cover against a concrete driveway) If you fail to do this, the cover will interfere with the belt.

10. Re-install timing cover

11. Install new udp, tighten bolt to specs.

12. put on new belt the same way the old one came off, using the belt tensioner as the last pulley to slide the belt onto.

13. Now go enjoy the power.

[younglink309]

I have a stupid question:

How long should this take?

[joshalabama]

An hour.

[younglink309]

An hour.

Thanks a bunch! XP

[yellow2000S/R]

An hour.

Yep. I did it in about 45 mins by myself. Would have been quicker if my tensioner wasnt such a PITA.

[j0hnZ]

ZOmg I know my friend Mark showed up thank god when I put Powderz pulley on 2 days ago. My source of all information zx2...teamzx2 was down damnit.

[TheGreatGatsby]

shouldn't this be moved to somewhere other then interior?

[WickedZ]

This is not for Interior Josh LOL

[lamouche98zx2]

i'm doing mine this weekend ...!!

[Fordboy]

instead of grinding the timming belt cover cant you just take it off and keep it off?

[Team Havoc]

^^^^ im wondering the same thing. Also do i need a new belt if i put a odp on after the udp has been on for a while(couple weeks)?

[scort2498]

this isn;t like a regular splash guard it keeps shit outta the crank and what not.... and depending on the belt size will u need a new one or not... most likely yes but mayb ur tensioner can fix the prob.

[Team Havoc]

Ok, then can someone tell me the belt size for when you have a udp and a odp on?

[koihoshi]

Meanings we're on the subject of installs. You don't have my pics when I originally wrote this up. Let me redo it and lets do this the RIGHT way.

THINGS YOU WILL NEED:

- Patience
- 10mm, 13mm, 18mm socket and a 13/16 socket
- Way to immobilize the pulley or an air ratchet/air gun
- Torque wrench for the pulley and putting your tire back on...
- A UDP or UDP kit...
- Jack and Jack stands.

Step 1: JACK UP THE CAR

Jack up the car, self explanitory, for purposes of simplicity just slap 2 jackstands under both sides of the car so the front of the car is elevated. Once it's jacked up, later on in installing this it will make it easier to get to it at your face level so you don't have to bend over to get at it, you can just sit and work on it.

Note my wonderful placement.
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd58/koihoshi/udphowto/jacks.jpg

Step 2: REMOVE THE PASSENGER SIDE FRONT TIRE

Self explanitory. If you can't remove a 4 lug wheel off of a car you shouldn't be doing this mod... hint: You need a 13/16 to get it off.

Note, there is no wheel in this picture. If you've removed your wheel correclty, it should look like this :lmao:
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd58/koihoshi/udphowto/nowheel.jpg

Step 3: REMOVE THE SPLASH SHIELD

There are roughly 7little bolt screws holding the splash shield in. Remove them and drop the splash guard down off the bottom of your car. This will expose the shielding over your timing belt and over the stock crank pulley, you should be able to see everything there. These bolts are ALL 10mm.

Here's 2 pictures of the splashguard with the bolt screws highlighted for ease.
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd58/koihoshi/udphowto/splashguard.jpg
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd58/koihoshi/udphowto/splashguard2.jpg

Step 4: POP THE HOOD

Not too hard, see? This comes in handy when there is no LIGHT down there... stick a light on the hood or up above in the engine compartment, it will make working on this whole thing so much easier...

Step 5: GETTING BACK UNDER THE CAR AND GETTING THAT TENSIONER/ REMOVE THE BELT

Using a 13mm socket you'll want to go righty tighty and release up some slack on the tensioner. The tensioner is above the A/C pulley and is very small, it's a smooth pulley, simply tighten the sucker up, this will move the tensioner and allow belt slack, with belt slack there, remove the belt carefully while holding the tensioneer in a slack position.

If you are UNDER the car with the splash guard removed if you sit under the facia and look UP through it you'll see all the pulleys, highlighted from 1st person perspective is the tensioner which uses 13mm.
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd58/koihoshi/udphowto/tensioner.jpg

Step 6: GETTING RID OF THAT STOCK PULLEY

Using a 18mm socket I highly recommend using an air wrench to get the sucker off unless you have a way to immobilize the pulley. Don't use a crapload of torque, set the setting to a lower setting and go lefty loosey on it and get the bolt off on the crank pulley. It should simply then just pull right off. You may have to jiggle and work with it, but once the bolt is off, it'll come out.

Now that the pulley is off, using a 10mm socket there are 2 small bolts holding on the shielding around the timing belt, take these off and slip the cover off. You will notice that there is a small "raised ring" around the shielding where the stock pulley was. Now take your new UDP and hold it in one hand, hold your shielding in the other, bring them together as if you were looking at them assembled in the car, notice how the spot where the belt would go through would be hitting that plastic shielding? Well, our next step is grinding that down....

Here's what the pulley looks like (UDP) but this is where the stock pulley will sit where the UDP is.
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd58/koihoshi/udphowto/pulley.jpg

Now here's a picture of the pulley up close and unfortunately due to light they are very hard to see but here's the 2 bolts to remove to get the plastic shield off.
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd58/koihoshi/udphowto/pulley2guard.jpg

Step 7: GRIND DOWN THAT SHIELDING!

This was honestly easy to do. You can rub it on the concrete like sandpaper, or use sandpaper (I recommend a sander) or a dremel.... I used a table sander and it took about 30 seconds to do for me... but I don't think thats something you have in your shop common place, so for those that don't use whatever you can. Simply grind down this plastic shielding ring until it's flat as if it was never supposed to be there in the first place.

Just so you see what I mean by remove the shielding here is a picture of the plastic guard BEHIND the pulley after it has been cleared, the belt clears it perfeclty, but before the belt would be covered/rubbing on it.

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd58/koihoshi/udphowto/shielding.jpg

Step 8: INSTALL THE NEW PULLEY

Simple enough... put the shielding back over the timing belt/crank pulley area with the two 10mm bolts. Tighten them up. Now you should be able to slip over the new pulley on there, MAKE SURE that the little notation mark on the pulley matches up with the mark on the crank or you'll be scratching your head going "WTF?" when you can figure out why it won't slip on, haha.

Just so you can line up those marks.... here is the mark on the pulley so you see...(this was a long time ago, i called it a "tick mark", all you need to know is that this is how you line it up.

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd58/koihoshi/udphowto/pulley3.jpg

Bolt it back on, once again, if you can immobilize the pulley CAREFULLY and get enough leverage you can put it back on using a torque wrench, YOU NEED TO USE 85-87ft lbs of torque PER THE BOOK. If your air wrench has a torque setting, set it to this and go carefully, air guns can tend to BREAK things so be VERY cautious or you're going to crack your new pulley and if that happens and it's spinning, it may end up going "whing whing POW" and splitting and then you throw the belt.

Step 9: TENSIONER TIME AGAIN!

Get out your 13mm socket. Tighten that tensioner to get up some slack and it's time to put the belt back on. For those who do not have a chilton book here's a diagram picture from it so you know what order to put the belt back on.

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd58/koihoshi/udphowto/diagram.jpg
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd58/koihoshi/udphowto/diagram2.jpg


Step 10: PUT IT ALL BACK TOGETHER

All you need to do is reverse everything now. Put the splash guard back on, make sure all bolt screws are accounted for...

Torque your wheel back down to 85ft lbs of torque and set her down off the stands.

Step 11: TURN THAT BABEH ON!

Moment of truth. Turn the car on, keep the hood up in case worse case scenario you throw the belt and have to jump back under there to remove the splash guard and check what you did wrong, lol! If all went well it should start up smoothly, sound smooth, run smooth and then just go take her for a drive and see what you think.

Hope this helps!

[so_slow_zx2]

I was going to see if any one had this from the old site, you sir..ROCK!!!:partynanas:

[koihoshi]

Thanks man :)

[Spooie]

has anyone ever had someone put the car in gear and push down the brakes inorder to immobilize the pulley to loosen the bolt/tighten the bolt. I did that on another car and it worked. Would it work with our cars?

[DustyMNZX2]

just use a impact wrench

[Spooie]

what if i dont have an impact wrench?

[2KZX2]

koihoshi glad you came back. this will be very helpful, thank you.

[DustyMNZX2]

then go buy one...

[texas_04]

maybe i'm wrong, but you need to reset the computer after you finish this, right?

[Beodude123]

If you don't have an impact wrench, get a breaker bar. Wedge it against the control arms or whatever they are called (to the rear of the car). The engine spins the crank clockwise, so it needs to be seated on the bottom of that bar. Crank the engine for 1/500th of a second. Turn the key, and then take it back out. It really doesn't take long, and you wouldn't want your car to start like that.

Makes it pretty easy. I've done it a total of three times.

[Beodude123]

No need to reset the computer or anything. Since it is basically a weight on the engine, airflow and everything else doesn't change, so the computer doesn't need to be reset.

[Buster]

If you don't have an impact wrench, get a breaker bar. Wedge it against the control arms or whatever they are called (to the rear of the car). The engine spins the crank clockwise, so it needs to be seated on the bottom of that bar. Crank the engine for 1/500th of a second. Turn the key, and then take it back out. It really doesn't take long, and you wouldn't want your car to start like that.

Makes it pretty easy. I've done it a total of three times.

1/500th of a second, huh?

What kind of stopwatch do you have? :D

[texas_04]

Thanks. SO no resetage of the computer. Check.

[Eak69]

Found this while searching. Bought a UDP from Powder earlier this year and didn't have time to install it.
Will use this 'How To' as a guide when I do in a week or two.

Thanks!

[ParaDox_007]

so that ford pulley you got from Ford im guessing?