Ha! You're all wrong.

RichardK wrote in news:4ssao0F1163qiU1 @mid.individual.net:

Arse

famous last words

why would you ignore the belt? and who on here said don'r do the belt?

if you knew it needed changing , why didn't you change it, or have a mobile cambelt fitter do it for you?

you realise it is now scrap, don't you?

It'll need at least 2 valves.

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The wife's Clio bust a belt. Two valves, a new belt and a gasket set - came to about £80. Bastard to do though - getting the O/S mount off was a fight.

I know a chap in London who's cambelt snapped on his little Diesel Astra van, £600 for a renovation of his engine.

I got myself a cam belt and a fuel in jector pump belt right away and changed 'em. F awkward! Then i snapped a bolt on one of the wheels, left it in the case and ran with three bolts. The thing found it's way out and made the injection pump belt jump a tooth when it did. Boy was I confused!!

So I had to reset it and now my injection pump belt has a little nick in it, logic tells me that'll be the one to snap, if any in the future...

But £600 quid to replace valves or whatever else they had to do to get my mate's car running again is a lot. It's worth taking that day and replacing belts and resetting your timing.

Remember when you sniff your exhaust, sherbet is full of fizzy CO2 (icing sugar, bicarbonate of soda and a pinch of citric acid). Woohoo, anyone remember fizz bombs? And flying saucers???

yum yum

couldn't it be the injector belt?

get on your knees and pray boy...

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Is it a diesel? He doesn't say.

ah, that was I noted the word diesel in my other post here.

Tut tut, William, you must wake up lad.

Is it a diesel?

I googled it and it was actually on ukrc.modifications, SteveH, AstraVanMan, etc all said change it (as did RichardK himself), only a James Gabrowski and DanTXD said not to bother - hang your heads in shame! :-)

Oh well, a stitch in time and all that.

Yep. Wanted to. Can't do it myself - lack of time primarily, but also lack of tools/cost of tools compared to theoretical cost.

I was waiting for a mechanic mate to sort it for me, but he never got around to it. Garages were asking £150, which for 2hrs labour (I had the parts already) seemed extortionate.

Planned to have a go anyway, but every weekend has been chaos :(

I'm not on the mods group anymore, the tossers Ken and that lot responding to them trashed it IMO.

Richard

I wasn't.

People call me paranoid, but one of the first jobs I do on any car I buy that doesn't have a recent invoice for it, is the cambelt. Usually followed by binning the cheapo teflon 'Dark Horse' tyres.

They seem to have shut up for now - back to Dervy and Steve arguing...

cheers, clvie

Get me pissed afterwards and I'll do it!!

Buy me the book, bring it to me, give me an hour to study it and a 50 quid residual for tools that I'll give you a 80% guarantee I shan't touch let me at your motor and you drive away while I collpase drunk, all's ok??

Don't contact me on the email, it's spammed beyond my care.

I'll fix it for you anytime, just shout me you want me to. and be prepared to bring it over to Blackpool, or pay my juice to get over to you and back.

In news:456b7c51$0$8734$ snipped-for-privacy@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net, Clive George wittered on forthwith;

Ken very nearly ruined it for me as well. There were quite a few times when I thought "I won't bother with this anymore".

I've just got in now from doing some prep work on a mates 205 GTi, Mi16 motor going in it ready for a few trackdays.

I'm looking for a half decent Gordini Turbo to build for myself.

Gordini Turbo? You mean, like... an old shape Renault 5?

Richard