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27th April 2021, 11:28 | #11 |
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In my younger inexperienced days had a Renault 18 2 litre that did me well until one day going home the car just stopped, like a wire had come off , nothing sounding serious
got towed home and found the whole belt with no teeth they were all lying in the botom of the cover . . had done 129k miles, belt should have been done at 80k . Head off , 4 slightly bent valves, took to work next day , popped them in a Collect on a lathe and with a DTi and a tiny tap back straight. All back together and the car went onto 174k befoire I flogged it on . C
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27th April 2021, 15:25 | #12 |
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A couple of photo's..............................
.................................. of a poorly Banana and my courtesy car. The ex'Keith24 "Bumbles" now owned by Matt Darke.
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27th April 2021, 16:12 | #13 |
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Lucky indeed.
Sounds like 2 pairs of valves kissed each other, rather than hitting a piston. Can you remember just how true you managed to get them? My guess would be about a thou, and did you do a compression test after the head was re-assembled? again, how close. With a further 44K miles on the engine, clearly good enough, well done. Regards Mike
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27th April 2021, 17:00 | #14 |
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Hope you have put the lottery on this week Bob ! Looking at the photo your camshaft sprocket timing looks reasonable to each other but these sprockets will have more than 12 teeth in contact at any one time ! What will be more interesting to see ,is how much the crankshaft timing has moved to the camshaft as the crankshaft has a lot smaller diameter sprocket ! Hopefully you haven't kissed any valves ! Crucially it appears on start up the belts missing teeth have not been sat on the crankshaft sprocket ! Hopefully the strip down will confirm good news I think that picture ends the age old debate about changing cambelts on the service schedule as cambelts can and do fail ! Last edited by TourerSteve; 27th April 2021 at 17:22.. |
27th April 2021, 18:35 | #15 |
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Its all this warp factor speed you get upto I reckon Bob.
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27th April 2021, 22:17 | #16 |
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unless the belt was faulty and i would very much doubt that it was i suppose it could have been new. more likely it was your old one put back on in the mistaken belief that it would be ok. as i understand you can reuse a belt with very low miles provided it was direction marked before removal but thats not something that that i would do and especially an engineer or experienced mechanic. good job you made that journey ! !
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My word. A lucky save indeed. Does it reduce friction with teeth missing.
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28th April 2021, 16:00 | #18 |
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She’s home...............
............................... and pulled like a two year old on the A38. Runs as sweet as a nut.
Still a few jobs to be done as the weather was against us today. But I’m happy with the outcome.
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29th April 2021, 17:53 | #19 |
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I supplied the details of the toothless belt to a fellow forum member, Trikey. And I now have the year the belt was produced.
Stand by for a total shock. The belt, a Dayco, was produced in 2006. I haven’t made up my mind what to do in contacting the garage that last fitted this belt.
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29th April 2021, 18:01 | #20 |
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I'd certainly make them aware if nothing else Bob, could be a problem with a batch of belts and in making them aware you might save someone else catastrophic damage.
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