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What is Timing Kit Set?
The GloBelt Timing Kit Set is specially designed for customer convenience, making it easier to replace components during regular maintenance intervals. It consists of GloBelt Timing Belt, Timing Bearing and Oil Seal. This prefix set of component will help you to be hassle free in changing of timing belts or any other relevant components.
Some repair jobs go hand in hand and it just makes sense to do them together. Timing belts and timing bearing are just such an example. We’ve gone even further with this kit and included all engine oil seals to complete the kit.
Basic Components
Timing Belt
The GloBelt Timing Belt is made from high-quality Hydrogenated Nitrile Butadiene Rubber (HNBR), offering excellent resistance to temperature, contamination, and wear.
HNBR provides strong protection against motor oils, gasoline, oxidized fuels, and lubricating oil degradation. It also resists animal and vegetable fats, ozone, solvents, fuel, and dilute acids. With superior tensile strength and tear resistance, it ensures reliable performance across a variety of applications and environments.
Timing Bearing
The Timing Bearing, Tensioner, and Idler Bearings are made up of key components including the inner and outer rings, retainer, grease, and seal.
These bearings are essential in both timing and auxiliary drive belt systems, where they adjust belt tension and guide the belt’s path. By ensuring proper tension and alignment, they help maintain optimal performance and prevent premature belt wear.
Oil Seal
The Oil Seal is made from VITON, a material renowned for its exceptional high-temperature resistance.
VITON is a synthetic rubber and fluoropolymer elastomer commonly used in O-rings, seals, and other molded products. Genuine Viton® is crafted from 100% pure fluoroelastomers and comes with official certification, ensuring superior performance and reliability in demanding environments.
Specific Components
All the components of current section only included in some specific car model.
Oil Pump Belt
The GloBelt Oil Pump Belt is constructed from high-quality Hydrogenated Nitrile Butadiene Rubber (HNBR), designed for exceptional resistance to both temperature and contamination.
HNBR offers remarkable protection against motor oils, gasoline, oxidized fuels, and the deterioration of lubricating oils. It is also highly resistant to animal and vegetable fats, ozone, solvents, fuels, and dilute acids. Beyond its impressive resistance and stability, hydrogenated nitrile also boasts superior tensile strength and tear resistance, ensuring reliable performance in diverse applications and environments.
Oil Pump Bearing
The Oil Pump Bearing consists of key components such as the inner and outer rings, retainer, grease, and seal. These parts work together to ensure smooth operation and efficient performance.
Used in both timing and auxiliary drive belt systems, the bearing helps adjust belt tension and guide the belt’s path. By maintaining proper alignment and tension, it reduces wear and friction, ensuring reliable performance and extending the lifespan of the belts.
Function
Timing Belt
The timing belt is a crucial engine component that connects the camshaft and crankshaft, ensuring the precise synchronization of the engine’s valves and pistons for smooth operation. It aligns the cylinder head, valves, and pistons, allowing them to move harmoniously while also driving components like the water pump, oil pump, and generator.
By utilizing combustion mechanical energy, it controls valve operation without external power sources. Additionally, the timing belt prevents the pistons from striking the valves at critical levels. This single device integrates multiple parts, including sprockets, pulleys, tensioners, and rollers, highlighting its central role in engine functionality and preventing costly failures like engine seizure.
Timing Bearing
The timing bearing, also known as the tensioner bearing, plays a vital role in maintaining proper belt tension and ensuring smooth operation of the timing and auxiliary belt mechanisms. It adjusts belt tension or changes the belt path and is built to withstand high-speed rotation and elevated temperatures. Comprising components like the inner and outer rings, retainer, grease, and seal, it may also include a pulley for rotation adjustment and a bracket for tension control.
The bearing prevents belt slippage, reduces noise, and optimizes space within the belt layout. Tensioner bearings, located on the slack side, allow tension adjustment, while idler bearings, positioned on the tight side, lack adjustment mechanisms. These bearings are essential in both the timing belt system, driving components like the camshaft and oil pump, and the auxiliary belt system, powering the alternator, air conditioner, and water pump.
Oil Seal
Oil seals, also known as rotary shaft seals or grease seals, are essential for closing gaps between stationary and rotating components in mechanical equipment, such as shafts. They prevent lubricant leakage and block contaminants like dirt from entering through clearances. Widely used in gearboxes, hydraulic cylinders, and other systems, oil seals play a critical role in maintaining proper lubrication and protecting shafts and bearings.
They serve as barriers to retain oil, prevent leaks under high pressure, and block foreign matter. Designed with features like a nose gasket to prevent outer leakage, durable lip designs, and self-lubricating rubber materials, oil seals ensure efficiency and durability even at high speeds.
Oil Pump Belt
Oil Pump Bearing
The Oil Pump Bearing, similar to a timing bearing, adjusts belt tension or alters the belt’s running path, ensuring reliable engine performance. Designed to withstand high-speed rotations and elevated temperatures, it comprises an inner ring, outer ring, retainer, grease, and seal. A pulley may be added to adjust the rotation ratio, and a bracket can control tension.
The races feature grooved tracks to position rolling balls, with a retainer keeping them separated. Grease reduces friction, while the oil seal retains it and blocks contaminants. This bearing maintains belt tension, transfers crankshaft force, prevents slippage and noise, and optimizes belt layout space.
How does Timing Belt break?
The timing belt break more often because of a lack of understanding and maintenance. The timing belt is made of rubber, when the engine is very hot, it naturally degrades the strength and texture of the belt, resulting in the belt breaking. Therefore, the timing belt should be changed or replaced according to the manufacturer’s recommended maintenance schedule.
Another cause of the breakdown of the timing belt component is a seizure of the water pump, which is caused by insufficient maintenance of the cooling system . When the water pump gets stuck, the gears stop instantly, which automatically causes the belt to break.
Maintenance & Replacement of a Timing Belt
It is very important for your vehicle to replace the timing belt at the mileage intervals recommended by the vehicle manufacturer. The recommended interval for timing belt replacement of your specific vehicle can be found in your vehicle’s manual.
Since the timing belts are made of rubber, they will wear out over time and eventually break. When it breaks down, the engine breaks down, components will be out of sync, and the engine will stop running. Failure to replace the timing belt or timing chain at the recommended time can result in engine failure, piston and cylinder wall damage, cylinder head or camshaft damage, and valve breakage or bending . This is not a situation in which you can confidently think, “If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.” Change the timing belt according to the manufacturer’s maintenance schedule so you don’t waste your money on engine repairs or replacements.
⚠️ WARNING!
A timing belt can fail without any prior warning signs, but here are some possible indicators that it might be time for a replacement:
Pro Tip from GloBelt
While replacing your timing belt, we strongly recommend changing the water pump at the same time. The water pump typically has a similar lifespan to the timing belt and is easily accessible during this repair. Replacing both together saves you time and labor costs in the long run!
Conclusion
Timing Belt or belt drives are very common in the industry today. They are used in light as well as heavy-duty applications in many different configurations. Round and toothed belts can measure the slightest relative movement in applications such as motion control, encoders and precision manufacturing. Flat, V and timing belts are widely used as power transmission belts. They find extensive use as material handling equipment too.
Timing Belt or belt drives are preferred in these applications for their salient features such as low cost, low weight, reliability, flexibility, durability, easy installation and maintenance. Generally, they can also be fitted into tight spaces. They do have certain drawbacks though. Often times the belts are not repairable and must be replaced. Their tension needs to be adjusted every now and then. And most belt materials are sensitive to the environment and chemicals such as oils and lubricants. Thus, due consideration and attention must be paid when choosing a belt drive system that is as compatible as possible with the application at hand.