Stilo How to change the 1.6 Timing belt

Now the FUN bit......
The crank pulley on the 1.6 is strange tbh, fiat decided to use a monster sized nut to hold the pulley on. To remove this bolt you need a flywheel lock and plenty of Ready Brek - to say it was tight is an understatement.

OK. you will need to climb under your car and remove the flywheel cover on the gearbox, this is usually held in by 3 10mm bolts (or in my case only 2 - lost one when i rebuilt the box - another story).
Now the flywheel lock i got didn't fit correctly - so i took an angle grinder to the thing to make it fit-

off topic-
OK before anyone says anything yes i know i have cv grease there and a minor oil leak - doing this job i saw that one of the gators had came free and had to repack it with grease before closing it up. as for the oil leak its been there for years and I've never been able to find the source


OK back to the point.
this will lock the crank in position, you should be TDC on your crank and timed up on the cams at this point. now you need to remove that horrible nut holding the crank in position - i feel for you !!!


done .... good hard wasn't it!!
you will now need to lift the pulley away, be careful not to damage your rev sensor or the sump, a large screwdriver was suffice in my case. You could loosen the aux belt but as the compressor belt has to be removed anyway and is not adjustable you may as well just pull it off in one.

once you have your pulley off check it for damage or in my case i had a lovely little tar stone in mine, no wonder why my aux belt was almost in two
discard the old belts!