Punto Cambelt - pics

by the looks of it & by the state of the cambelt id say the adjuster/idler pulley has seized!

No idea, perhaps a bigger photo would help.....

I'd agree with that. Jesus, how lucky? Looks like it could have snapped at any time.

JB

"Mike P" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net:

Good for another 200,000 miles I'd say. ;-)

Take a closer look - it's quite amusing.

cheers, clive

whoops, sorted now..

Most of the cambelt seems to be in a sludge around the tensioner

Mike

Nice. When my idler pulley did that I took two days to work out that when Audi had built the engine originally they'd timed the distributor up two teeth out , so would the b****** start :-( Thereagain the relief when I realised that was the fault :-)

Who's a lucky boy then? :)

Lifetime supply of free caviar? :-)

I'm worried the cambelt might have jumped a couple of teeth. It seems under tension still, but the engine sounds sick when I turn it over and won't start.

Mike

you seem to be posting the problem in bits & pieces rather then the whole story as you didn't say you had a problem from the start.

so to start with did you check the timing marks were correct ( aligned) when you took it all apart ?

I haven't taken it apart. That's what I found when I pulled the cambelt cover back to start the job. I've thought "sod it" and it's gone to the garage because I think the headgasket's gone too :-(

Mike

I was hoping for a picture of a random Polish semi-naked female, but unfortunately you didn't find out. Keep trying.

Not so lucky then, possibly?

Si

Fiat is an assembly company, parts come from many small suppliers using different machines and inspection methods.(for this reason some parts don't fit properly) In the past Italians would buy Fiat because 'you could find spares even at the barber', things have changed.

If you are a real FIAT fan don't keep one for more than a few years from new or you will land up with a piece of machinery which is likely to cost you money, the spares are not cheap, and at the end of the day in order to get the best residual value you will have no alternative other than put it in against another.