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[Welung666]

Certainly interested mate, I'm only free evenings though which is useless for you,

I can do weekends in the day, however the next two weekends I am not around!!

But can I mail you coming up to the 23rd 24th if you don't mind?

cheers,

Matt.

Evenings are a bit pointless in this light but any weekend your free will be fine (I don't work weekends anyway)

By quick peek I meant cam belt cover off to confirm the belts status, I wasn't planning on dropping my glass eye in the filler cap

[ians]

Smell could well be leaking camcover seals..

[mattbreaker]

To be honest the smell was more like an electrical burning smell almost like burning plastic.

here's what happened,

Driving to redditch from the NEC, normal speeds ( I have a bike for speed and general thrills) left the M42 at junction 3a (redditch) and this awful smell appeared, I turned the heating off (which was on full blast at full heat) the smell went away as I got to the bottom of the A435 to take the redditch bromsgrove exit I turned the heating back on and the smell came straight back and thats when the engine cut out and I lost power steering.

waited over an hour for the RAC chap to arrive, he looked at it and decided it was the cambelt snapping which is what would explain the smell,

He asked me to turn the engine while he removed a cover from the left side of the engine he said he could see that the valves were shot.

I'm by no means a mechanic so I take his word as gospel,

Does this make sense to anyone? smell appearing only when the heating was activated?

Cheers,

Matt.

[Elite Pete]

The smell could have come from the cambelt tensioner, the bearing gets hot and melts causing the cambelt to jump teeth.  

[Welung666]

The smell could have come from the cambelt tensioner, the bearing gets hot and melts causing the cambelt to jump teeth.  

Sounds the most logical. Depends how many teeth as to how much damage it's done really.

[Marks DTM Calib]

That would be the favourite!

Best thing to do is trun the engine to TDC and remove the top two bolts from the cam cover.....then you can see the timing marks.

Quicker and easier than a strip down!

[mattbreaker]

to be honest, I wouldn't know where to start! what does TDC mean??

Cheers.

[Elite Pete]

to be honest, I wouldn't know where to start! what does TDC mean??

Cheers.

Top Dead Centre.
The crank and camshafts have marks on the to allow you to align then

[Welung666]

Just let me know when your about and I'll see about getting down to you Matt

[mattbreaker]

nice one mate I will do,

Cheers,

Matt.

[jonathanh]

I'm over by the NEC in birmingham and could possibly help as well.

I've got a cam locking kit around and, after I replaced my cambelt I kept the old belt and tensioners:  now this is no permenant solution BUT if your tensioners have failed you could relace them with my used ones to see if your engine still runs - if so then a new kit is in order.

let me know (by PM) if that would help

J

[mattbreaker]

sounds wicked mate but my car is in redditch, I came to work in the van.

Are you on site?

Cheers,

Matt.

[jonathanh]

actually work in central birmingham - live just outside of the airport.

TBH only really available at the weekends so that ain't great for you I think but happy to lend a hand if needed

[RobseyMV6]

Hi Matt, what year is your elite? I`m only asking as at the moment i`ve got a 3.0 `99 engine for sale on fleabay, could strip it down so you only get what you need, if interested?  

[mattbreaker]

Mine is a V reg so probably the same year as yours.

I'll ask one of the nice chaps off here to come and tell me what I need, I'm crap at this sort of thing so you'll have to excuse my ignorace/lack of knowledge!

not to mention I'm getting my Van repaired at the moment, its all sh1ts and giggles eh?!

Cheers for the info, will contact you as soon as I know what the best plan of action is,

Cheers,

Matt.