timing belt help please 300tdi

hi i have just had a timing belt fitted on a disco 300 tdi as i am skint after buying the car a mate fitted it for me as he said he had done them b4 now the car starts but sounds like a bag of nails has he got the timing wrong? if so what damage has he caused and what sort of cost will it be to put right ? maybe i should just sell it as scrap

most likely just needs setting correctly unless your push rods are bending ,you will need to remove front cover again

ty for the reply i will have to find someone to do it as i know nothing about cars are the push rods expensive ? it sounds like someone hitting engine with a hammer and when u rev it the noise hurts your ears ive not moved it off the drive since i have got it back im too scared to drive it incase i cause more damage :confused2:

cheap but dont run it till it is checked again

great lol whats the worst that can happen cos trust me when it come to me its always the really bad expensive things that go wrong never anything cheap and easy :frown:

damage pistons, bend valves and damage valve guides ,but most likely just bend push rods

ok it has been driven about 15 miles since it was done and ive started it a couple of times so my dad could listen to the noise could that cause more problems sorry for all the questions but i put every penny i owned into buying her and am now skint and no way of getting her fixed :frown:

learn quick and check it your self you could have it right for a couple of quid most likely

get yoself a timing kit, or look in the cambridge section for someone to help.

lmao i struggle changing a wheel i wouldnt know where to start

okay ty i will try and find someone to come look at it for me (not the bloke who fitted the timing belt) and keep my fingers crossed its not f***ed

If you offer bacon sarnies and bake a cake,someone on here might come and help you-I would if it weren't so far

lol ty the problem is there never seems to be anyone local and everything in cambridge is soooo bloody expensive i can do bacon sarnies not sure about the cake lol

the bloke who done the belt said the engine is knackared but the noise wasnt there till after he done the belt it sounded fine b4

that would tell me it was something he didnt get right

jamesmartin said:

that would tell me it was something he didnt get right

Click to expand...

i agree just hope and pray he hasnt caused too much damage

sam260173 said:

the bloke who done the belt said the engine in knackared but the noise wasnt there till after he done the belt it sounded fine b4

Click to expand...

jamesmartin said:

that would tell me it was something he didnt get right

Click to expand...

Does sound rather fishy,

I would come and help Sam as I'm not a million miles away but I wouldn't know what to do if the rods are bent
change 'em I suppose.

If you have the time Barmatt,I would just re-align it to the timing marks and pins first,to see how it sounds-might get away with it.If you are lucky might be pump too far advanced causing diesel knock-If you do go,show her what you are doing so she learns for herself for next time

tdis with having cam at the side and push rods have a much greater chance of survival of belt failure or mis-timing when pistons hit valves than modern more common overhead cam types as push rods can bend easily ,you can check there okay after setting timing by checking valve clearances as a bent push rod will have a much greater clearance

biolandy said:

If you have the time Barmatt,I would just re-align it to the timing marks and pins first,to see how it sounds-might get away with it.If you are lucky might be pump too far advanced causing diesel knock-If you do go,show her what you are doing so she learns for herself for next time

Click to expand...

its been back to him once after the cam belt change as the fuel pump was making a bad noise so my dad had a spare fuel pump which he fitted he said part of the pump was broke ????? now its making even more noise banging and clanging and knocking etc it took him 5 days to get it started