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27th December 2012, 09:51
#1
New Member
Vectra 1.9 CDTi 16v Cambelt destroyed!
Hi All, My brother in laws Vectra water pump seized and totally destroyed the cambelt http:// had he got the car looked at the day before when it first overheated it probably wouldnt be in this mess! Anyway I have removed the camshaft assembly and found all 16 cam followers/rocker arms snapped in half all the valves appear to be ok they are all sitting at the same height and I have pushed them up and down none are sticking so I am hoping there is no damaged to the head or pistons it happened at low speed less than 20mph I will do a compression test to confirm but don't really want to remove the head unless I need to. I have search previous posts to get the info I need on refitting what I cant seem to find is torque settings for the bolts which hold the cam assembly to the head or if they should be done up in any specific order? Has anyone else had this sort of damage done and got away with just replacing the followers belt, water pump etc or am I being a bit to hopeful? Cheers P.S I cant seem to use the return function when typing to get spaces hence its all one paragraph!
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27th December 2012, 13:32
#2
Jesus.
Here's the cambelt guide, this might help. http://www.mediafire.com/view/?nyz6mebnu3t2k23
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27th December 2012, 13:42
#3
seeing that makes me feel justified in changing mine even though it looked in good condition
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27th December 2012, 14:50
#4
Might print that too show customers who turn their nose up at getting water pump done at same time as belt lol
fingers xd no major damage
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27th December 2012, 14:53
#5
Yep... I bought my mates cdti after similar happened, 6 rockers, belt and pump and its back on the road
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6th January 2013, 18:27
#6
New Member
Have rebuilt engine today but cannot get it to start all the injectors were put back in the same order they were removed there seems to be plenty of fuel at the injectors when I slacken off the pipes what I have noticed is the spanner light is lit and for some reason the fuel gauge is reading empty even though its got a fuel tank fuel pump light is also flashing may be unrelated? would it need to have any faults reset before it will start again? ran out of time so will look again tomorrow and will plug in a fault reader. Cheers
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6th January 2013, 18:36
#7
Shouldn't need to reset codes, I didn't?
Is everything def reconnected up...
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6th January 2013, 18:47
#8
Regular Member
The fuel pump is ran off the cambelt aswell, I'm not too clued up on them however may have thrown something out of sync? Although I don't think the fuel pump sprocket has to be timed along with the crank and cam
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6th January 2013, 19:13
#9
Do you hear the pump in the tank prime when you turn the ignition on?
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6th January 2013, 19:33
#10
glad i had my water pump done with the timing belt kit .
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