Very productive day today stripping down ready to practise the cambelt replacement job.
Only a couple of things went wrong...
1.) I dropped a bolt to one of the Aux pullies down the drain in front of the garage
but no big deal I'm sure I'll get a replacement from Vx or somewhere and 2.) I cracked the timing belt cover. Anyway, we'll come to that in a minute.
This pic is awesome...... N.B, the cam pulleys have been marked by someone in tipex as has the casing.
Cams 2, 3 and 4 are roughly in correct position with the crank at TDC (also someone marked with tipex). But check out cam 1.............4 or 5 teeth behind where it should be
Another pic showing the whole timing set up with Cam 1 sticking out like a sore thumb
This is the tensioner with the crank @ TDC..... again if I'm right in thinking looks wrong too (should be lined up with the marking???)
Removed items....I put all screws with their respective components to aid reassembly. Note the pulley missing a bolt
The reason I broke the cam casing
I can't seem to remove the assembly holding the aux belt tensioner.
Broken casing.... not too bad. The pics not great but you can just see three specs of light shining through.
Finally, the Aux belt. Looks nackered to me and I assume it should be replaced if I was to do the job on my good car.
SO.
With all the above, how the hell could that cam timing get out by so much
Anyway, awesome day. No real dramas. I would say that the crank pulley was a fekking beatch to get off. No movement from rubber hammer. Got evil with a pretty substantial pry bar behind it. Slowly pushed against and it popped off. Was worried for a while though
Oh and one thing I just remembered..... Water pump has no play in it and no noise when pulley spun. Good!
The Aux belt tensioner does sound gritty when you spin it so I will be following Mark's excellent advice with re-packing it with grease to make it silent
Anyway, hope you enjoy the update as much as I enjoyed doing it
Cheers.
Car Bear