Lucky Cambelt Escape!

[Fred@BTM]

i had a phone call last week from a customer (who funnily enough was booked in for a cambelt change at the time)

his car had conked out and the RAC man had towed him home

the info i was given over the phone was promising, apparently the RAC man said the cams were still turning

so anyway, i drove for an hour to the customers house with tools in tow, jacked the engine up and whipped off the cam cover, right enough the cams would turn, BUT the belt was loose as hell

the car was trailered to my workshop and i took it apart and found the following
a normal idler is on the right

a normal idler is on the right

lucky is an understatement! no damage found so far, fingers crossed!

 

[Fred@BTM]

02 plate on original belt by the way!

 

[Monaco Sean]

02 plate on original belt by the way!

Thats not bad going then!
But foolish not to check and change on time.

 

[Gray]

VERY lucky escape!

How everything else is ok

 

[sideways danny]

same failure as the one i posted with the valve embeded in the piston last week. That was an 02 on seeming ly the original belt too. Didn't get away with it that time. VERY lucky escape there!!!

 

[Brett]

Thats definately a lucky one. Why people neglect belts i'll never know.

 

[Greeny.]

7 years on the original belt, he deserved it tbh.

 

[Whitey172]

Fingers crossed

As Fred said I have nt had it very long and was booked in for a change very soon.

 

[iimushroomzii]

Lucky!

 

[Pearl_Black]

when I bought my 02 plate last month, I couldnt see histroy of a belt change, The first thing I did was have all the belts changed!

 

[Darren S]

i had a phone call last week from a customer (who funnily enough was booked in for a cambelt change at the time)

Lol - you have no idea how twitchy my arse has been between booking my car in with Birchdown at the end of the July - and actually taking it in two days ago. I drove EVERYWHERE like a bloody pensioner. I just thought it would be sod's law that I'll give it a blat and the belt go a few days before it was to be replaced.

Needless to say that my petrol consumption is taking a bit of a battering at the moment.

D.

 

[Fletcher]

7 years on the original belt, he deserved it tbh.

I agree.

 

[richy22]

same failure as the one i posted with the valve embeded in the piston last week. That was an 02 on seeming ly the original belt too. Didn't get away with it that time. VERY lucky escape there!!!

Wheres your post???

 

[Mike@Rentech]

Seen that a few times before , not just on the sports.

Feel sorry for the guy that booked in for a cambelt change on his scenic the other week, booked it for the following week but he turned up the very next day on a breakdown truck with a snapped cambelt.

 

[maynard]

fred is that the one that turned up on sunday? he's a damn lucky bloke!

 

[Fred@BTM]

yeah thats the one mate!

 

[.GAZ.]

Lucky boy!

 

[sideways danny]

Wheres your post???

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=445021