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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: john1959 on 13 September 2022, 16:18:44
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do you need to take cambelt off a 3.2 elite to change the waterpump?
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No, but it is good practice as they don't take too kindly to being soaked in coolant ;)
To put that another way, the work involved to get to it is the same, so for the sake of a cambelt kit, it would be rude not to do it at the same time.
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thankyou dr have another star!!
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If the timing belt change is within a couple of thousand miles/six months I would include it in the job.
Otherwise, I'd just fit a waterpump.
As for anti-freeze affecting the belt, there's likely to be far worse crap already lurking around the crank pulley. And it's hardly difficult to stuff a couple of rags under the pump if you're worried about it.