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[The Cambelt Kid]

I'll take a peek later tonight when i return home.  The cam cover had no stickers on it, so i'm going to take it from the V5.

Cheers
Marc

[ffcgary1]

IT IS STAMPED OM THE ENGINE BLOCK NEXT TO THE OIL FILTER ON A FLAT SURFACE.

[The Cambelt Kid]

Kit is dependant on your engine number.
To 08300418 you need 93188674 £143 retail £128.70 trade £89.08 TC
08300419 to 08578511 its 9201887 £118.00 retail £106.20 trade £89.08 TC
08578512 onwards its 93172354 £121.00 retail £106.20 trade £89.08 TC

Mine is 0867**** so i'll be needing the latest (93172354)

Thanks for the info C-Zok!

[maria]

It's actually parallel with the gearbox bellhousing, on the engine block...

It's stamped in vertically..

[The Cambelt Kid]

Later cars don't have the lower adjuster.  Different procedure for fitting one of them (slightly).

By the notch is a number, indicating which cam that notch is for.

How does the install differ on a 2.6?  Anything major i need to be aware of?  as it stands on my dad's drive now it has all cams and crank locked and ready for belt kit.

Cheers
M

[TheBoy]

Later cars don't have the lower adjuster.  Different procedure for fitting one of them (slightly).

By the notch is a number, indicating which cam that notch is for.

How does the install differ on a 2.6?  Anything major i need to be aware of?  as it stands on my dad's drive now it has all cams and crank locked and ready for belt kit.

Cheers
M

There is something about winding back to 10 degrees BTDC...  ...Kevin Wood has done one recently...

[maria]

Later cars don't have the lower adjuster.  Different procedure for fitting one of them (slightly).

By the notch is a number, indicating which cam that notch is for.

How does the install differ on a 2.6?  Anything major i need to be aware of?  as it stands on my dad's drive now it has all cams and crank locked and ready for belt kit.

Cheers
M

There is something about winding back to 10 degrees BTDC...  ...Kevin Wood has done one recently...

On Bob dents cambelt, just fitted the kit as per normal, cranked by hand, and the 2-4-6 bank was timed up perfectly

Quick tweak on the 1-3-5 bank, and job done.

Makes it a lot easier

[The Cambelt Kid]

Later cars don't have the lower adjuster.  Different procedure for fitting one of them (slightly).

By the notch is a number, indicating which cam that notch is for.

How does the install differ on a 2.6?  Anything major i need to be aware of?  as it stands on my dad's drive now it has all cams and crank locked and ready for belt kit.

Cheers
M

There is something about winding back to 10 degrees BTDC...  ...Kevin Wood has done one recently...

On Bob dents cambelt, just fitted the kit as per normal, cranked by hand, and the 2-4-6 bank was timed up perfectly

Quick tweak on the 1-3-5 bank, and job done.

Makes it a lot easier

Maria/TB...

I see that makes sense!  Quite a lot of sense!  So banks 3/4 can never be out from teh crank then, it's only 1/2 that needs the timing.

I take it this was a quick tweak by GM to save time and money.

Thanks guys and gals  

[maria]

Later cars don't have the lower adjuster.  Different procedure for fitting one of them (slightly).

By the notch is a number, indicating which cam that notch is for.

How does the install differ on a 2.6?  Anything major i need to be aware of?  as it stands on my dad's drive now it has all cams and crank locked and ready for belt kit.

Cheers
M

There is something about winding back to 10 degrees BTDC...  ...Kevin Wood has done one recently...

On Bob dents cambelt, just fitted the kit as per normal, cranked by hand, and the 2-4-6 bank was timed up perfectly

Quick tweak on the 1-3-5 bank, and job done.

Makes it a lot easier

Maria/TB...

I see that makes sense!  Quite a lot of sense!  So banks 3/4 can never be out from teh crank then, it's only 1/2 that needs the timing.

I take it this was a quick tweak by GM to save time and money.

Thanks guys and gals  

Either that, or we just got lucky  

Done a couple of these later ones now, never seems to cause a problem.

If there are no markings on the belt, leaving an extra tooth than you would normally between the crank and tensioner works well for me = stops the cams from being a tooth out after the first rotation.

But.. that's personal opinion only, not to be relied upon

[JasonH]

On my 2.5 facelift you have to thread the belt a bit differently just to get it on. If I can remember I had to loosely put it round the crank 1 tooth out and fit it round the idlers working anti-clockwise as you look at the engine. The belt went round the tensioner last then you could correct the belt position on the crank.

[maria]

On my 2.5 facelift you have to thread the belt a bit differently just to get it on. If I can remember I had to loosely put it round the crank 1 tooth out and fit it round the idlers working anti-clockwise as you look at the engine. The belt went round the tensioner last then you could correct the belt position on the crank.

Seems a bit complicated, but as I say, each to their own.

I start at the crank, then up to the tensioner, around the 1-3-5 bank, then around the top idler, over the 2-4-6 bank, and then I fit the lower idler...while holding the belt back..

[A380 Elite]

Me thinks, Maria will be teaching me how to.

See you very Soon.

[maria]

Me thinks, Maria will be teaching me how to.

See you very Soon.

Yes, on the 18th October

[JasonH]

Maria - good tip. I was working from the Vx college V6 manual......

[The Cambelt Kid]

Here is a couple of pics from earlier today.  I'm not too sure how the timing could be out like this on a 2.6, maybe the crank jumped a tooth?

(CAMS 1+2)



(CAMS 3+4)



The reason i stripped down to investigate was slight loss in power (felt like it was holding back) and MPG wasn't the best either.  I also noticed that the injector timings between banks were different too.  Hopefully a new and correctly installed kit will make things a whole lot better.

Also i noticed that the tentioner did not load/unload while manually cranking round with the old belt in place, i take it that this is wrong?  It seems to be springy while in the vice, but not while it was on the car...