Coo - see what happens when you miss wathcing for a day or two.
For me the cam belt problem and the EM codes have all gone. Car running very nicely now.
Now - if no timing kit.
I think I would need the spanners (I could use a pair of gips instead of a 30mm spanner), screwdriver, torx socekets and std or multidrive socket set.
The most important things is having successfully done it before so you really know what it should be like.
Locking the cams can be achieved with a variety of tools. I found that 5mm allan key worked quite well and the earlier suggestion of a woodern peg does the job.
Some bits of wood and a bit of kill whittling should make it possible to device a gauge before taking the old belt off. Not too difficult I think. Alernatively a steel rule to measure the distance between the cam marks and a fixed point on the engine. TDC on the cranshaft can be got by eye against the notch on the casing at the bottom of the engine though this does mean getting under the car. It should be possible to lock the crank using a 16mm socket and extension bar and a pair of mole grips although in practice you can do this without locking the crank - it just takes longer and you are likley to end up have to do it more than once.
Provided that the cams come back to mark at
TDC twice in a row you should be OK.
So I reckon if could be done, quite accuratley too, without the kit. But - you do need the experience.
So - anyone feeling lucky. In all the excitment I can't remember which mark to use for cams 3 & 4.
TTFN
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