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Re: Cambelt Tensioner Failure 10k early?
« Reply #30 on: 30 October 2009, 22:18:26 »
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not as bad as 39,995 miles too early  :'( :'( :'(

Sorry Jimbob am i missing something? You had an early failure?  :-/


Yup, Mark did my head gaskets....new cambelt kit.....

it didnt survive the test drive.

let go at low speed turning into Mark's road.


bye bye new heads  :'(

Fek  :o :o :o Sorry to hear that  :'(
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Re: Cambelt Tensioner Failure 10k early?
« Reply #31 on: 30 October 2009, 22:19:56 »
Cheers, all sorted now.

Mark rebuilt another set of heads, and redid all the work

(Star bloke  :y)
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Re: Cambelt Tensioner Failure 10k early?
« Reply #32 on: 30 October 2009, 22:20:50 »
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Mark rebuilt another set of heads, and redid all the work

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He is indeed a top bloke  :y
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Re: Cambelt Tensioner Failure 10k early?
« Reply #33 on: 30 October 2009, 23:13:58 »
If thats a tensioner letting go at 27K, something is seriously wrong with manufacturing quality control. How many others have 2.2's that have done that sort of miles since a change ?. Me for one. :'(

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Re: Cambelt Tensioner Failure 10k early?
« Reply #34 on: 31 October 2009, 10:14:42 »
Pictures as promised, i can't see anything majorly wrong or loose.

I span the alternator by hand, was smooth and silent, tiny bit of noise in the aux belt tensioner nothing big. Cambelt tension looks fine, small movement between the cams, but tension is good. small amounts of crap on the cambelt cover, no serious gashes or anything in it.

Really at a loss at what could be causing this noise, hopefully J will be along in the afternoon, need a pair of eyes/ears to took at the cam area for a second or two once it starts.







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Re: Cambelt Tensioner Failure 10k early?
« Reply #35 on: 31 October 2009, 10:41:32 »
only thing that comes to mind is a failing valve  :'(
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Re: Cambelt Tensioner Failure 10k early?
« Reply #36 on: 31 October 2009, 14:14:32 »
Unless you take the belt off and spin each tensioner you won't necessarily know if it's on its' way out.

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Re: Cambelt Tensioner Failure 10k early?
« Reply #37 on: 31 October 2009, 14:40:26 »
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Cambelt Tensioner Failure 10k early?
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not as bad as 39,995 miles too early  :'( :'( :'(

Sorry Jimbob am i missing something? You had an early failure?  :-/


Yup, Mark did my head gaskets....new cambelt kit.....

it didnt survive the test drive.

let go at low speed turning into Mark's road.


bye bye new heads  :'(
Whoa! Now I feel lucky mine made it to 51k on the original belt.. :o I'll never "forget" again!
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Re: Cambelt Tensioner Failure 10k early?
« Reply #38 on: 31 October 2009, 16:57:41 »
just gone over the it again with Jaime, he reckons it could be the tensioner too, but its hard to tell. It could be tensioner, water pump or the pulley.

It was all due to be changed in early March anyway, so just brought it forward thats all. I'll order the bits and put the belt on next weekend.

Just have to steal borrow the 3.0 Elite for a week  ::)
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Re: Cambelt Tensioner Failure 10k early?
« Reply #39 on: 31 October 2009, 20:08:20 »
Unfortunately, Tunnie has put his camlocking wedge somewhere safe. Very safe. Very, very safe.

So we were unable to remove the belt.

The noise seems to be coming from the area of the tensioner, waterpump, or the idler just above.  A listening stick wasn't conclusive, none of those 3 sounded 'right' to my ears.  The other idler sounded what I would expect.

Ideally, I'd like to whip off the belt, and find whats wrong before spending money, but as all of those need to be changed together anyway, makes sense to do that now and see whats what from there...
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Re: Cambelt Tensioner Failure 10k early?
« Reply #40 on: 31 October 2009, 20:14:09 »
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Unfortunately, Tunnie has put his camlocking wedge somewhere safe. Very safe. Very, very safe.

So we were unable to remove the belt.

The noise seems to be coming from the area of the tensioner, waterpump, or the idler just above.  A listening stick wasn't conclusive, none of those 3 sounded 'right' to my ears.  The other idler sounded what I would expect.

Ideally, I'd like to whip off the belt, and find whats wrong before spending money, but as all of those need to be changed together anyway, makes sense to do that now and see whats what from there...

I blame James!
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Re: Cambelt Tensioner Failure 10k early?
« Reply #41 on: 31 October 2009, 20:16:20 »
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Unfortunately, Tunnie has put his camlocking wedge somewhere safe. Very safe. Very, very safe.

So we were unable to remove the belt.

The noise seems to be coming from the area of the tensioner, waterpump, or the idler just above.  A listening stick wasn't conclusive, none of those 3 sounded 'right' to my ears.  The other idler sounded what I would expect.

Ideally, I'd like to whip off the belt, and find whats wrong before spending money, but as all of those need to be changed together anyway, makes sense to do that now and see whats what from there...

I blame James!
LOL, wouldn't put it past him ;D.  Think he may still have my compression tester ;D

S'pose we'll have to invite him over for a curry night, and relieve him of them - on the assumption you two don't start cuddling and kissing again...
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Re: Cambelt Tensioner Failure 10k early?
« Reply #42 on: 31 October 2009, 20:18:23 »
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Unfortunately, Tunnie has put his camlocking wedge somewhere safe. Very safe. Very, very safe.

So we were unable to remove the belt.

The noise seems to be coming from the area of the tensioner, waterpump, or the idler just above.  A listening stick wasn't conclusive, none of those 3 sounded 'right' to my ears.  The other idler sounded what I would expect.

Ideally, I'd like to whip off the belt, and find whats wrong before spending money, but as all of those need to be changed together anyway, makes sense to do that now and see whats what from there...

I blame James!

Buy another! They're only a few quid aren't they?
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Re: Cambelt Tensioner Failure 10k early?
« Reply #43 on: 31 October 2009, 20:19:49 »
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Unfortunately, Tunnie has put his camlocking wedge somewhere safe. Very safe. Very, very safe.

So we were unable to remove the belt.

The noise seems to be coming from the area of the tensioner, waterpump, or the idler just above.  A listening stick wasn't conclusive, none of those 3 sounded 'right' to my ears.  The other idler sounded what I would expect.

Ideally, I'd like to whip off the belt, and find whats wrong before spending money, but as all of those need to be changed together anyway, makes sense to do that now and see whats what from there...

I blame James!
LOL, wouldn't put it past him ;D.  Think he may still have my compression tester ;D

S'pose we'll have to invite him over for a curry night, and relieve him of them - on the assumption you two don't start cuddling and kissing again...

I think you drugged us to make a did  :-/  ;D

Curry night sounds good, mother & father tunnie are away next next weekend, so i will be looking for a take away  :)

James has a new project too, could bring that?
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Re: Cambelt Tensioner Failure 10k early?
« Reply #44 on: 31 October 2009, 20:20:37 »
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Unfortunately, Tunnie has put his camlocking wedge somewhere safe. Very safe. Very, very safe.

So we were unable to remove the belt.

The noise seems to be coming from the area of the tensioner, waterpump, or the idler just above.  A listening stick wasn't conclusive, none of those 3 sounded 'right' to my ears.  The other idler sounded what I would expect.

Ideally, I'd like to whip off the belt, and find whats wrong before spending money, but as all of those need to be changed together anyway, makes sense to do that now and see whats what from there...

I blame James!

Buy another! They're only a few quid aren't they?

Already have off eGay, trouble was we wanted one now then then to whip the belt of to test the tensioners.
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