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Post by gary66 on Aug 4, 2015 16:45:32 GMT 1
You even have to do that just replace ""the rear"" timing belt on a disco 3 so I'm told. Who designs this crap??
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Post by valhalla on Aug 4, 2015 23:56:14 GMT 1
You can do the rear belt on a TDV6, the early ones anyway, with a mirror and lots of patience. The timing isn't important, you just have to make sure that everything is ready for the tensioner when you pull the "grenade pin" on the new unit. The later ones are more tricky, because the CR pump has to be timed to avoid problems. Then you lift the body, or sweat a bit more. I usually bear the scars for a few weeks after each one. Loads of garages just do the front belts on TDV6's, because they know that if the rear belt snaps, it isn't the end of the engine, not unless it goes through something. The design is crap, because your typical underbonnet layout Engineer these days uses very high quality CAD design tools, and the easy way of packaging everything is to solid-model the engine, then put a "skin" of roughly 10mm (if you're lucky) around the outside of that. Voila, everything outside the skin is fair game, panels, pipework, electrical harnesses that show-up as 1mm thick on the CAD designs , heatshields, etc. etc. That is why everyone in the garage trade spends all their waking hours removing panels, pipework, electrical harnesses (that show-up as 1mm thick on the CAD designs), heatshields, etc. etc.
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