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« on: 01 April 2011, 20:46:37 »
Spent this afternoon changing the cambelt on my estate.
Finding all but one of the mounting bobbins for the multi-rams and SAI were broken was only the start.
Some butcher has pulled the cabletidy out of the belt cover, and broken both; the cambelt cover is now almost in 3 pieces, so I'm going to have get a replacement at some point.
Taking the cover off revealed Tippex marks on all the pulleys, and the tensioner marks were nowhere near each other, so I expected the timing to be out. Using the locking set soon proved it, all four cams were a whole tooth out!
After lunch, I put it all back together, struggling with the marks on the belt, and on the fourth attempt, got it all timed correctly.
Reassembled all the front bits, made some spacers to replace the bobbins, and it started first time. Left it idling while I tidied up and topped it with coolant. It now idles smoothly, unlike before when it hunted by about 250RPM, so that's a success.
After running it around the block, I found that there was a lot of slack in the throttle pedal; fitting the clip that was still stuck to magnetic tray sorted that, but not the water leak from the O/S radiator hose.
It's now dark, and the engine's hot so I'll be taking the Avenger to work tomorrow, and hoping for a quiet day so I can fix it completely.
I'm going for a beer!
Finding all but one of the mounting bobbins for the multi-rams and SAI were broken was only the start.
Some butcher has pulled the cabletidy out of the belt cover, and broken both; the cambelt cover is now almost in 3 pieces, so I'm going to have get a replacement at some point.
Taking the cover off revealed Tippex marks on all the pulleys, and the tensioner marks were nowhere near each other, so I expected the timing to be out. Using the locking set soon proved it, all four cams were a whole tooth out!
After lunch, I put it all back together, struggling with the marks on the belt, and on the fourth attempt, got it all timed correctly.
Reassembled all the front bits, made some spacers to replace the bobbins, and it started first time. Left it idling while I tidied up and topped it with coolant. It now idles smoothly, unlike before when it hunted by about 250RPM, so that's a success.
After running it around the block, I found that there was a lot of slack in the throttle pedal; fitting the clip that was still stuck to magnetic tray sorted that, but not the water leak from the O/S radiator hose.
It's now dark, and the engine's hot so I'll be taking the Avenger to work tomorrow, and hoping for a quiet day so I can fix it completely.
I'm going for a beer!
