O.K. it seems exceedingly sensible to change the cambelt on this little Pug that I have taken over to look after. It seems not to have been done. It will be 8 at the end of August. It has not been driven for 2.5 years. So..... what'll it cost for the cambelt to be changed folks???? Any ideas - so I can start looking for the piggy bank!!!!
Very simple engine design - I'd expect my local guy to charge around £100 for a belt change and oil / filter change.
"Him at home" wrote > So.....
45 minutes labour plus the price of the belt. On my Sierra it used to be £51 inc VAT. Half as much again on a Peugeot I would say.
If the poster is all that skint, I usually find selling a child - or stealing a child then selling it (and feigning denial when the law appears) usually works for me; but only with peugeots. Shame.
"Chris" wrote
This is not necessarily sensible advice. I could change a Peugeot cambelt myself if I had a workshop manual, possibly a special tool or two, and a morning in which to do it but it would make more sense to volunteer for some overtime at work and use my earnings to pay a far more experienced person to do it for me.
Apparently it needs some locking pins and a tensioning tool plus a
1.5kg weight to hang off aforementioned tool.Other than that, there's nothing overly complicated.
Do it your self,
Should be no more than =A3100.00 inc vat and labour Chris Addlestone Surrey
"SteveH" wrote
Yes, but the thing is that I can sit on my arse listening to my favourite CD for a couple of hours watching beautiful scenery roll by and earn enough to pay an oily cancer-handed mechanic to change my cambelt, and then some.
So why would I do it myself?
Because it'll only take a couple of hours to do at worst and your hourly rate is less than the hourly rate of the mechanic you pay to do the job.
As i know there is no special tools needed, just a lot of cups of tea. chris Addlestone Surrey
Its not deisel is it ? so what do u need the locking pins,if u take your time removeing everything you will have no problem putting it back in the same place. so good luck give it a go.yes it is a bit tight in the wheel arch but i can do it from top and side, Good Luck from Chris Addlestone Surrey
Yeah - depends entirely on the car.
Have no idea about Peugeots but a Fiat 131 cambelt I did do and it wasn't hard. Daewoo Lanos 1.6 DOHC - forget it, I'll leave the cursing to the mechanic (and he will on that car).
Cheers
Tim
TO lock the crank and camshaft pulleys in place.
And you need to set the right tension on the belt.
"SteveH" wrote
I don't get an hourly rate, I get a daily rate. So I can work 4 hours on a saturday morning and earn £107.50, as I did yesterday (over half of this "work" consisted of sitting on a cross-channel ferry reading a newspaper) I would sooner do this and leave the dirty work to someone whose living depends on it.
And I got tomorrow cancelled as my load was moved to Tuesday. As I was booked for the whole week, I can bill £80 for tomorrow as I sit at home.
What you on? if you do these every day of the week like i do you dont need any of those tools.
I bet you change belts on Zetecs without fitting a pulley kit as well.
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I've often wondered how necessary they are. If you mark the pulleys so you get their relative positions right, what need for pins?
NO WE ALWAYS REPLACE THE PULLEYS IF THEY LOOK WORN WHICH IN MANY CASES ITS A LOT..
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