I just bought the beast and I plan to make a full service on it.
1.Timing belt. What is the change interval. What does the timing kit include (belt, rollers, how many rollers etc)? Price for such a kit? Any tricks and tips I should tell my mechanic when he changes the belt?
I just bought the beast and I plan to make a full service on it.
1.Timing belt. What is the change interval. What does the timing kit include (belt, rollers, how many rollers etc)? Price for such a kit? Any tricks and tips I should tell my mechanic when he changes the belt?
Funny you should post this. I recently bought a 1.5TD and recently done a full service. I got the garage to do me a full timing belt kit (belt + tensioner)
Think the belt and tensioner was about £140 or something about £80 fitting all with VAT.
Make sure the mechanic fits on the correct belt...the garage had bought about 4 different kits from vauixhall before they got the right one for my year.
It should be easy to find the right belt, 136 teeth x 25mm according to all web info. I couldn't find information about the tensioner(s) and the change interval. What is your next change interval ?
I have the haynes manual somewhere. I beleive it was about 70k miles but the mechanic recommend about 50k because it's older engine annd a bit more vibration ect.
The problem they had with my belt was one had rounded edge teeth and others had square edge
You should try it yourself for deffo, get experience plus save loadsa cash, i just sold my transit yesterday, about a month ago i changed the (snapped) cambelt, i had never done it before, i had very basic tools and still managed fine. Cambelt 26.50 inc vat. Tensioner 15 inc vat. Cuts and bruises free lol. labour 2 hours. im sure it will be easier for you as i had to remove radiator, slam panel, viscous fan, and both belts, plus wrestle with 15 year old rusty nuts and screws which had never been touched since it had left the factory, i changed its cambelt for the first time and it just touched 90k when it snapped lol. ill tell you that was a laugh the belt had fully wrapped itsself around the crank pulley so this 2 hours labour included removing rocker cover, rocker assembly and bending back 6 pushrods with my rather large hammer and cutting the belt to bits with a stanley and side cutters till it dropped off lol. God i love the old transit 2.5 di`s, bulletproof.
no way I am doing it myself mate. I am taking it to the mechanic and even so I am scared about the outcome.
Hardcore, what did your kit contain, how many bearings?
Now I see it was a mistake I didn't change the water pump. We just saw that the water pump is leaking coolant. Its been leaking since day 1 and we just found out.
Next task: new water pump. While we are at it, we'll change the timing belt and the alternator belts. I will leave the timing belt bearing/pulley,as they have only 27.000km.
Thanks a lot for sharing this information with me.
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