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Re: Matchless Project 2 arrives
« Reply #15 on: 15 September 2006, 08:58:36 »
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Looks like the marker thingie for tensioning has come adrift.

Correct.
But what else is missing and what could all the metal swarf on the water pump be?

Clue: Its a '98 engine and the cambelt cover has not been removed before.
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Re: Matchless Project 2 arrives
« Reply #16 on: 15 September 2006, 09:47:50 »
98 and never removed - is it still complete in one piece ? :o
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Re: Matchless Project 2 arrives
« Reply #17 on: 15 September 2006, 10:46:54 »
I'm going to guess tensioner bearings that have disintigrated also parts of the belt maybe.
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Re: Matchless Project 2 arrives
« Reply #18 on: 15 September 2006, 10:57:16 »
would be surprised if it is all in one piece after double the time scale for changing!!
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Re: Matchless Project 2 arrives
« Reply #19 on: 15 September 2006, 19:53:53 »
Matchelss fitted a good second hand set of idlers and an adjuster that I had tonight to see if the engine was a runner (new ones will be fitted shortly).

It ran perfectly so thats good news.........the old tensioner was totaly seized!
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Re: Matchless Project 2 arrives
« Reply #20 on: 15 September 2006, 22:52:01 »
Right, now that I know that there are no bent valves its time for :
cambelt kit
water pump
new aux belt
several oil changes (its running on a mixture of Brent light crude and coal dust)
replace camcover seals (yes they are leaking afterall)
flush coolant

just need to get No1 daughter installed at Uni, finish the patio, refit Allenm's heads etc before I dare be seen with my head under the bonnet again. So thats a cambelt change in the snow then. :(


Incidentally, the blob in the photos was the melted remains of the tensioner plastic spacer with the pointer embedded in it.
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