Cambelt Renewal

[Russ.]

Going to phone a few garages tommorow about getting my cambelt replaced (car is around 5 yrs old now). What else should be replaced at the same time? alternator belt hasnt been done for at least 12months, do tensioners or anything need changing at the same time as the cambelt?

Would really appreciate it if someone more in the know than me would write me a big list to get changed.

ta, russ

 

[Fred@BTM]

get the water pump done as they do start to leak

cambelt and pulleys/tensioner have to be replaced

alt belt is easy and cheap

 

[Has]

As Fred says change the water pump.

More then likely it wud have started to leak!

 

[Russ.]

cheers for info, thats exactly what i wanted.

will get some prices later today and see how badly im gonna get ny pants pulled down lol

 

[hkka]

can someone show me what a leak water pump looks like??

 

[bmh.01]

Yep, deffo get the water pump changed. Didn't know about it when I did the cambelt on my old 1.2 and only found out after that it was probably the pump leaking as to where my coolant kept going, wasn't loosing a massive amount but it was leaking. Got shot of it in the end before it got to be a problem but would have changed it if I had known.

Is it a problem on the 1.6 too ?, will be looking to do the cambelt on this one soon and want to know if I should do it as well?

 

[Fletcher]

I should really get my cambelt done as my mk2 172's now on just under 61K.

 

[MarkCup]

I had mine done two weeks ago at 69K...£1,053 eek!!!

But I did have Mike do a load of other things while it was up on the ramps, new front dampers etc.

 

[Fletcher]

Mark your cambelt did well lasting that many miles, considering how many track days you've done.

I've got also got a few other things that need sorting out like broken washer pump and dodgy temp sensor. Back to Rentech for me soon i think.

 

[Russ.]

what sorta price should i expect to pay for cambelt, water pump and pulleys/tensioners?

 

[TomTom]

Still aint done mine its almost at 71k

 

[Fletcher]

Still aint done mine its almost at 71k

At what millage age should the dci's cambelt be changed then, is it the same as the sport models 72K or 5 years whichever comes first?

 

[TomTom]

Yeah its the Same mate, water pump started leaking about 2 weeks ago aswell.

I'd always put a water pump on when the cambelts being done, hardly worth stripping it all out again a few weeks later if it starts getting noisey.

Doing it in a fortnight need to borrow the timing pins from work

 

[Fletcher]

Cheers mate^^^^^