Just wondering if anyone else has had this problem or if it's just my luck....

 

Got the mizumo timing kit from the 'bay for my 1991 EJ22.

 

stock pulley:

 

 

with bolt:

 

 

Mizumo pulley:

 

 

 

with bolt:

 

 

 

case is threaded all the way to the outside - there is no inside step to take up the "shoulder" of the bolt.

 

 

 

 

Any ideas ?

 

Thanks.

 

Dan

 

 

Add a flat washer or two under the bolt head so the bolt doesn't bottom. I believe you will find the only double width bearing (for lack of a better term) in the kit will be the toothed idler which is the one that fails the most often.

Great thanks !

 

Just wanted to make sure it was okay to add a washer.

 

Dan

Mizumo used to include shorter bolts with their kits, I guess they don't anymore.

Washer under the head of the bolt will be fine.

i used the old bolts.

i used the old bolts.

 The picture that shows the "shoulder" of the bolt sticking through the pulley......is the old bolt.

I ran into this same issue with my 1990 & the Mizumo kit, but no problem with the 1995 (same kit) as it already had the shallower pulleys/shorter bolts on it... design change between model years is my best guess.

 

with my 90, i think we found a shorter bolt to fit from another motor, but, I had a couple of parts cars to scavenge stuff from - not everyone has that kind of parts availability.

 

if you need it running, and need it now - yeah a washer will work (if you can find one to fit down in the hole the bolt goes into - seems to me we tried doing that with mine with no luck), otherwise you will need a slightly shorter bolt. IIRC, one of the other pulley bolts is a little shorter & is what we used on mine (one from a junk motor)

 

 The picture that shows the "shoulder" of the bolt sticking through the pulley......is the old bolt.

 

if you say so,

but it does not look like an old bolt!!!!!