The timing belt in your Ford Focus works with the sprockets for the camshaft and crankshaft. Changing a timing belt is far more troublesome than the accessory drive belt, as the camshaft and crankshaft have to be set at the Top Down Center (TDC) place. Examine together with your mechanic earlier than you do that, particularly as a result of the process could fluctuate relying in your engine sort.
Accessing the 2002 Ford Focus Timing Belt
Unplug the automotive’s negative battery cable. Elevate the automobile’s front finish, help it on jack stands and take away the wheel on the proper aspect. Block the rear wheels and take away the passenger’s facet splash protect.
Remove the accessory drive belt. Unbolt and take away the belt’s lower cowl and switch the tensioner bolt clockwise to launch the pressure. Unbolt and take away the drive belt tensioner at the heart bolt. Remove and put aside the energy steering pump reservoir from the pump, letting the fluid drain into an appropriate container. Un-bolt the coolant growth tank and set it apart; do not disconnect its hoses. Take off the timing belt cowl by remove the higher nuts and bolts adopted by the lower ones.
Remove the 2002 Ford Focus Timing Belt
Rotate the engine clockwise utilizing a breaker bar and socket on the crankshaft damper bolt. Rotate it till the timing mark on the camshaft pulley aligns with the cylinder head’s timing mark and the crankshaft pulley mark aligns with the TDC mark on the oil pump housing.
Loosen the belt tensioner’s bolt and pry it to the left with an 8mm Allen wrench. Lock the tensioner in place with a 1/8-inch drill bit in the gap and re-tighten the bolt. Remove the spark plugs by pulling out the spark plug wire at the boot and remove the plugs with a wrench and spark plug socket; flip the wrench counterclockwise.
Maintain onto the crankshaft damper with a strap wrench after which take away the damper bolt, the damper after which the timing belt.
Installating the 2002 Ford Focus Timing Belt
Verify to see that each one the timing marks on the crankshaft and camshaft sprockets are nonetheless correctly aligned.
Install the new timing belt in a couterclockwise route over the pulleys beginning at the crankshaft. Preserve the belt tight between the camshaft and crankshaft and you put in it over the different pulleys. Loosen the attaching bolt on the belt tensioner so the tensioner will snap into place in opposition to the timing belt.
Re-set up the crankshaft damper, tightening the bolt to 88 foot kilos. Rotate the crankshaft by two full clockwise revolutions. Cease on the second flip when the camshaft and crankshaft sprockets are each at the TDC place. Tighten the tensioner’s attaching bolt to 18 foot kilos. Re-join and set up the remaining components and elements in the reverse order of removing.
[taken from ehow.com]