Re: 300TDi tming belt.

In article <[email protected]>, Austin Shackles wrote:
>
>
> In theory you can see it through the drain hole... the other thing you're
> supposed to be able to do is look through the drain hole for rubber
> filings..
>

Derry has suggested the same thing, I'll have to try and take a look.

Is it not visible by removing the little plate on the timing chest cover
directly in front of the injection pump then?



> end up somewhere around 120 ft-lbs, I reckon that big sod on the front of
> the engine must be up around 200. I guess the transmission should take that

I think if it came to replacement I'd let someone else do it, I'm not geared
up for nuts that tight!

When the belt on the missus's Astra needed doing I let a garage do it cos
if it goes wrong it can be very expensive, and they'd have to pay for the
bits.

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Simon Barr.
'97 110 300Tdi.

On or around 5 Aug 2004 07:43:38 GMT, Simon Barr <[email protected]>
enlightened us thusly:

>In article <[email protected]>, Austin Shackles wrote:
>>
>>
>> In theory you can see it through the drain hole... the other thing you're
>> supposed to be able to do is look through the drain hole for rubber
>> filings..
>>
>
>Derry has suggested the same thing, I'll have to try and take a look.
>
>Is it not visible by removing the little plate on the timing chest cover
>directly in front of the injection pump then?

nah, that just gets you access to the pump-timing adjustment bits. I've not
investigated this, but you might find that the timing cover, if unbolted,
can be moved enough to look at the belt. The pulley , after all, isn't
tight against the front of the cover. As I say, I've not tried it.


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