Howard Bickley if you swing it down you have more room to work and for this particular vehicle room is something lacking when working on it.

Thank you for your comment I was beating the crap out of mine I knew that pulling needed to be loosened on my 1999 it's a 12 mm used a long open box end wrench

Thank you, I've been beating the crap out of mine.

@@merbywerby glad u saw my comment! :)

I still can't get it to loosen up. I'm gonna go buy a longer 12mm wrench to try and loosen the pully center bolt. I've debated just cutting the belt the air conditioner doesn't work any how. I'm actually trying to remove the belts so I can replace the thermostat.

@@merbywerby you can get the thermostat off from above not too much hassle, but you have to have small hands and a 1/4" ratchet and short extension with a 12mm socket. You can reach all 4 bolts to break them loose with a 3/8 ratchet and deep 12 mm socket, but there isn't much room to swing the ratchet.

You must mean the oil filter, that most likely isn't causing your problem. Might need more details though.

+Jesse Hoff no the oil filter i bought. put some clean oil on the rubber thing and srewed it back on by hand so i wouldnt make a hole in it then it started sputtering and leaking by a big bolted caged looking thing right by the oil plug thing where the oil comes out but its not the plug it self.we thought it was the wrong oil so we bought a higher milage oil and tried to drain the other but nothing not a drop came out from where it should have then i unscrewed the filter and my boyfiernd tried to start it at the same time and thats the only way we could get the oil out and it was all burned and dirty the first we drained was clean we could have even put it back in but we didnt so we poured the more expensive oil in and screwed the filter back on and tried to start it but this time it would cranck but not start is there anyone that knows what is wrong?

+Jesse Hoff as a matter of a fact i bought a filter exactly like that one and 5 w30 oil for highmilage

Might have burned up your cylinder walls by running the car with low oil. You don't need to run the car to drain the oil.

old post but to any new readers they dont just pop off after 150000plus miles depending on where you live we have road salt chloride issues and anything on the bottom side of car will be corroded. would pay to give all bolts involed a good dose of wd40 or any kind of penetrating oil perhaps a couple three times in advance of the project

Maybe two hours of time if he's being slow, I bet an experienced guy could do it in an hour.

Doesn't sound like you loosened the Allen key on the upper bracket, though.

New distributer shaft broke. Had it happen on a 98

Are the plugs dry when you pull them?

@@JesseHoff Yes. Dry and fouled,

Scott Cupp ya fuel delivery sounds pretty suspect then.

@@JesseHoff That's what I was thinking.

No

Why would you replace a good one.

@@joescheller6680 because if you're already in there put on three of the same age grouping. It may look ok but what about six months from now?

It is, I had it up to 315,000 miles before I sold it.

Jesse Hoff wow thank you!

@@JesseHoff did you run it on an oil additive like STP?

@@dubblyewjay1133 nahh, oil was changed pretty religiously though.

I think so