Gates TCKWP335 Kit

I purchased this kit to replace the water pump, and timing set in my girlfriends Chevy Aveo. This kit came with everything I needed to replace. It's been a few months now, and this daily driven car still runs great. P.S. don't bother trying to use a cam hold down kit for this job on this car, you have to take the cam sprockets off to get to the water pump, stupid design on GM's part.

The kit fits to my 2006 Chevy Aveo. A tensioner pulley and the other pulley are plastic as same as original parts. Also fan in water pump is plastic (original is steel). I've changed it at 50k miles since I see some complain on web about failing belt. I found the original belt tension was way lower than it suppose to. It was good to find it before trouble happen. It was first time for me to change timing belt of any car and took me about 2 days for me to finish it. And half day to re-adjust belt tension (second time was way faster that fist try). If you are not confident to work with it, you may not want to do it yourself. And you can buy this kit and water pump wrench. Then call repair shop around your place to find someone who can work with "brought in" parts. You can save some money by this way. Anyway if you are novice like me and still want to do it by yourself, followings are things I learn from this time. 1) Order to work with bolts without impact wrench. Remove crankshaft pulley bolt --> Untighten camshaft bolts. --> Remove timing belt. 2) Crankshaft pulley bolt is difficult to untighten if impact wrench is not used. I watched following video on youtube and worked on my aveo. "How to use a breaker bar to remove a crank pulley bolt on a passenger facing, clockwise engine. " 3) This kit come with instruction to replace timing belt. But to replacing water pump and tensioner, the camshaft gears and the belt covers at side of cylinder block (inner timing belt cover) have to be taken off. Instruction in Aveo Forum can be found by searching with "aveo forum timing belt write-up". 4) Camshaft gear bolts need to be untightened before the timing belt removed. So the camshaft won't rotate because the belt is holding it when you untighten it. Just untighten it first. The bolt will be removed after the timing belt removed. I realized it after I took timing belt off. So I needed to re-assemble timing belt again to untighten camshaft gear bolts. It may not be problem if impact wrench is used. 5) I started work with socket wrench set, wrench set and screw driver set. Jack, jack stands and wheel chock. But all fasteners are frozen, needed breaker bar. I bought a following breaker bar and an adapter. 1/2" female - 3/8 male adapter 1/2" drive-18" length breaker bar 6) Need extension for socket wrench to remove engine mount bolts and others. I bought a set. 3/8" drive 1-1/2 In., 3 In., 6 In., 10 In. 7) To untighten water pump retaining bolts, hex bit and breaker bar are needed. I bought a set. 3/8 in. drive chrome vanadium steel metric hex bit set 3 mm, 4 mm, 5 mm, 6 mm, 7 mm, 8 mm, 10 mm 8) When water pump retaining bolts are loosen, pump shaft may be tilted little bit and changes tension on timing belt. Tension will be adjusted with slightly loosen retaining bolts. But check the tension gauge again after retaining bolts are tightened. It will have more tension when retaining bolts are tightened. Lower tension may damage the belt. Higher tension makes more belt noise and may damage the belt too. Because of this, I had to redo tension adjustment again after I hear noise of tight belt on test drive. 9) As others said 41mm water pump wrench is needed. Lisle 13500 41mm Water Pump Wrench for GM 1.6L 10) Cam lock tool is useful ( I bought it). But when camshaft gears are removed and re-assembled, I still struggle to rotate camshafts in correct place and putting this lock took. Still worth to have this tool. Lisle 36880 Dual Overhead Cam Lock Tool 11) I personally recommend to replace thermostat housing originally made by plastic. People complain about this part since it seems brake often. I bought stainless one at AutoZone and O ring for it. Original washers on bolts won't fit to this parts (washers are too large and can't take off from bolts) and needed to grind to make it fit. Since coolant need to replace at this work, this thermostat and housing better to be changed in same time. Good luck.

Kit was a great idea and made the swap much easier. I trust Gates belts and so far have not been disappointed. As other reviewers have mentioned, the water pump has a plastic impeller but is working fine. Tensioner and idler pulleys seem to be good quality too. The kit even contained rudimentary directions for the swap though internet research was more fruitful. I have several hundred miles on the parts now with no apparent trouble. The kit gets an A+ Amazon shipping a D. It was a week before I even received a tracking number. It's a good thing that I ordered the kit well in advance of my planned work. So what took so long to ship?

Producto se ajusta de excelente manera. Recomendado para el Aveo motor 1,6 DOCH

Everything looks of very good quality. Very nice packaging. I hope to do an update on this review a year after installing the kit on my vehicle.

This a brand name at a great price. I looked everywhere and this was the cheapest where I could find it. My mechanic recommended this brand and my car is now running like new.

While replacing the alternator, I decided to replace the timing belt and after reading about that task online, decided to replace with this kit. All the parts fit, were in good condition, and have worked well since installation.

Excelente, le funcionó a mi Aveo lt 2012. Es la segunda que compro y siempre dura según lo recomendado para el cambio.

Le quedó perfecto a mi Aveo 2013, es automático. Hasta el momento todo bien

Seams like the kit is good quality. Can’t beat the price. All fits good on my 2005 Aveo.

El paquete no venía sellado, venía abierto, aparentemente todo viene oka

I bought these for my 2007 chevy aveo, 1.6 engine VIN#6 (eighth number from left to right) package arrive on time as expected being prime, parts were complete and accurate. Belt is gates brand (trustable) tensioner, idler and pump not brand identification. Got these to my local garage to get them installed June 18, 2018 all parts fitted without hesitation or problem coolant flush done (despite I thought was not necessary but warranty wise it's a must) I have used the car for a couple of hundreds of kilometers not problems, engine runs smoothly (tune up done too spark plugs and wires). My only hesitation so far is the quality of pump, idle and tensioner which I have to wait for a couple of thousand of kilometer if meets the expectations (hope it does since reliability of this car must remains high for my use). I will be updating in the next Kms how things are going. So far satisfy with these (price). Ps: since kit doesn't have the pump wrench is good to have it if it's going to be replace by DIYer. (Vise wrench could be an option but more work is required). Sept 1st 3 months later and 10000 Km already ran and everything it's ok. Let's wait for 5000km more. July 2019. A year later almost 30k and everything is ok.

Looks fine, an actual Gates belt but the other components are made offshore, which I expected anyway. A bit of a glitch with the shipping time or else I would have posted 5 stars, it was fixed without a problem. I would buy from again