You mean the 1992 Volvo 940 Turbo your daughter owns?

So, you want the crankshaft pulley counter hold tool (Volvo PN 9995284), or to borrow someone that has one.

You have options:
https://www.brickboard.com/FAQ/700-900/EngineSealsBeltsVent.htm

I imagine some Portland OR-Vancouver WA folks here can help you.

This tool is made by OTC (SPX? tools for Volvo, at least the OEM version. Some after market will do okay. Early iPd versions of this tool were made of stamped plate steel and would flex. The advantage of this tool as it locks the crank works so you have very low risk of damaging the crank timing belt gear as you use a 24 MM socket with a breaker bar on the crank pulley retaining nut.

Continental makes a kit with the INA brand belt tensioner. Round toothed belt lasts 100k miles. Square tooth belt lasts 50k miles. Tensioner lasts 100k miles (Replace every second square toothed belt).

Also, several times, like after the first 100 miles, and then again 500 miles or so, on a cool OFF engine, remove the grommet that covers the timing belt tensioner, release it, wait some minutes, and reapply proper torque. Restore the rubber grommet. The timing belt stretches at initial run in for the first 500-1000 or so miles.

Some one with a good mechanic's touch with the belt under tensioner, uh, tension, will be able to slowly, and slightly turn the crank pulley, as you stand on the North American passenger front corner, slightly counter clockwise, as you stand in front and face the pulley, to remove all slack on the timing belt long run. Go to far, and you have reset the alignment. I've never seen the tensioner, when released at the retaining bolt, apply such force as to turn the crank end to take up long run slack. Maybe other folks have.

Another option is your local Volvo club, the Oregon Volvo Tuner of Portland:
http://ovtuners.org/

Yet you plan to do the work this weekend? May I also suggest any Volvo Penta marine service shop may lend or rent you the tool? If it was 1989, I could suggest a few repair facilities that may lend you, or hold a credit card and perform a credit card authorization, or you merely leave a deposit and rental charge.

You may well know all this stuff already. So, sorry to go on so long.

Hope that helps.

My best to the (McMenamins) Fulton Brew Pub on SW Nebraska Avenue, Kell's downtown, and well, some other places.

The Captain Neon Burger and (Ken's) Communication Breakdown Burger are my faves. With tater tots. At the Fulton.

Ken was the cook and creator of his Communication breakdown burger at the Fulton. Not quite the same as it was 28 years ago.

Hope that helps.

Formerly Portland-Vancouver MacDuff.
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