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Do you change your own timing belt?
Wanderer:
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--- Quote from: "Hightower" ---What's a timing belt? Have looked it up in the TD5 manual and I don't have one :wink:
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well you do have a chain that unscrews the oil pump bolt :lol:
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That was below the belt!
:lol:
Pun intended!
J B:
when changing the cam belt on a 3oo tdi with serpantine belt, in order to get the bottom pulley bolt undone you :-
remove serantine belt from the alternator, then fold the excess of the belt into itself at the crank pulley, depending on which side of the crank pulley, for either undoing or doing up, the belt then grips into the pulley so you can undo or do up the crank bolt
no special tools needed, other than summat to get the viscus fan off, which i did with a thick strip of steel with a 30mm slot in, though i fitted a kenlowe kit at the same time so i dont have to worry about that again 8)
ta jon
ben_haynes:
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a couple of old drill bits to lock the cam pulley and diesel pump pulley up, it is easy
Bulli:
You dont write the manuals so you?....just kidding, i thought i'd been rumbled for my earlier comment!
petergalileo:
I can change an engine, top up air-con, remove gearboxes, take bodies off etc etc.
I never do timing belts, with modern engines, there is so little clearance between pistons and valves, best left to the garage. If it breaks or is done incorrectly, you can take it back to them. if you DIY it, its your problem !
Doesn't help that the first one I ever did, I did incorrectly and knackered the engine. It was lucky it was a Lada Samara so was worth about the same afterwards anyway, besides, engine was an option on it anyway ! LOL
Besides, my V8 doesnt have a timing belt :twisted:
Peter
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