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300TDI Cambelt Change Step By Step With Pics

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solihull-mick:

--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on February 22, 2010, 21:11:00 ---Can I just ask, you line up the crank position by sigth through the wading hole, so you manage to lock it without the special tool.  Is there any risk it might move?

Also, you have the fuel pump timing pegged, don't you have to do likewise with the camshaft pulley?

Do you find drill bits accurate enough for the 9.5mm pegs? (the blunt end, not the sharp end)

Thanks for another great article :thumbup:

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You dont have to use the wading hole, there is a great big arrow inside the timing case, this points to the woodruff key on the crank shaft, no peg needed on the cam, that lines up with its own mark never moves, and a 9.5mm drill is fine for the injection pump, just remember to undo the 3 10mm headded bolts on the injection pump to allow cambelt slack to move round to the tensioner side,

Jay_disco:
great info mick. but i think ill let you do tis job on my 200! least i know its gonna be done spot on.  :dance:

MattDilley:
Hi,
really impressed with the post, hope it goes as easy for me as it looks in the pics.
Can anyone tell me where the best place is to get a cambelt kit from? And any idea of the cost?

Matt

Range Rover Blues:
As I'm doing yet another one, long story :angry: I thought I'd check something.

Assuming anyone ever finds this, when you line up the cam belt pulley, there's a mark on the pulley and the casing right?  well once the belt is tensioned this doesn't line up.  It was the same last time I did one of these but I'd had the chance to mark it with paint before I started, sadly this time the belt broke :cry:.

As it looks to be half a tooth out, do I advance it or retard it?

Range Rover Blues:
I finished the job and it runs fine.  What I discovered is that the timing mark should line up before you tension the belt, as you tension it the timing mark may drift out slightly and this is normal.  Once tensioned the timing gear should then be slightly anti clockwise.  mine was about a quarter of a tooth but he last one I did was nearer half a tooth.

I've never been able to find out how the timing is set on the camshaft pulley.  It is adjustable but no manual I've seen has the procedure.

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