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Cam belt change

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Hello,

I've done a quick search and not found much on it...

Do any of you do your own cam belt changes?

Can anyone provide a list of required parts and part numbers and approx prices? I guess it all has to come from Reno?

Im looking to buy a mk1 Vee which will need the belt doing soon, but I'm not gona pay Reno £1200.00 to do it. I have been pulling engines out of cars for years now and have changed a number of belts on F4R engines so i have all the equipment etc...

just wondering if anyone has written an article or guide for it?

Also does anyone have a copy of the Renault basic manual for the V6, I've got the PDF version for the F4R so I assume there must be one for the V6 aswell as Its the same engine used in many other Reno's...

Cheers Ashy.
 
Hi,

Part Numbers are:

Timing beltKit: K015602X5 - Cost me 300 inc VAT at trade
Water Pump: FWP1980 - Cost about 50 inc VAT at Trade

There is a URL link somewhere on the forum for the manuls on how to change the belt and all the tools required.

Matt.
 
Would not even try it.

For some one that knows what they are doing and full garage facilities takes between 8 to 10 hours hard work.
 
Hi Ashy,
You can do it yourself, no rocketscience, BUT, you need to lower the engine, so ideally you need a lift for that.

I have a 4 collumn lift, so you drive the car on that, then raise the rearend and put it on two supports.

What I found really convinient is to take of the rearbumper, it's quite quick to do and it is way more easy to take off the exhaust.
(The easiest way is to take out the rearlights, to access the bolts)
The exhaust bolts tend to rust quite a bit so I took it off completely with the manifolds.
Next take off the rear upright (you could leave the two upright mount at the shocks, to prevent alligning afterwards)
remove gearbox oil, pull out drivingshafts.
Remove the rearsubframe.

I took out the engine completely, not a big fuzz, I just created a cradle on 4 turnable wheels. I lower the car until the engine gearbox rests on the cradle, disconnect the wiring and tubing, and then raise the car, and you got the engine resting on the cradle to move around.

Took me two days, including the thinking about the method I used.
The four turnable wheels come in very handy when repositioning the enginegearbox for montage. Also I cut two acurate profiles where the engine/gearbox sit on the cradle, so it remains positioned correclty.

I'll put a picture of the cradle next week.

And for the parts, I use a friend of mine who is wholesaledealer for AD. (supplier for garages) and they stock it all, saves you quite a bit too, and everything is the same as from Renault.
The base engine is not special.

You need 5 8mm drills to secure the camshafts and crankshaft, and a square plug tool (two sizes) to tension, and detension the multiVbelt, and cambelt.
The manual of the cambelt mentions the frequency measurement tool, but actually it is a bit out of date, the new tensionrollers, have a marking point for the pretension, and I just use this. (worked for me 2 times already, and run up to 7600rpm no problems so far)
 
John V6":2e11svro said:
Would not even try it.

For some one that knows what they are doing and full garage facilities takes between 8 to 10 hours hard work.
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Whats more difficult, doing a cam belt on a V6 or rebuilding then fitting a F4R engine running on standalone management into a R5gtt then turbo charging it?

Even if it took me 2 weekends work it would be well worth it.

Harry, thanks the info is very helpful, any pics you have would be great, I do have a little engine bogey I store a spare engine on so its easy to move around the garage...

If i do it I'll write a little article for people in the future :)
 
If you know what you are doing have a go. It takes time and to me time is money.

I am better off letting some one else do it whilst I earn the money.

Have had too many people come round after trying to carry out work that they were nat capab;le of doing.
 
Well just picked mine up this evening from a local garage. He had it for 2 days and changed the cambelt and water pump for me. It took him around 6 hours. The hardest bit (he tells me) was the water pump. The engine had to be pushed over slightly in order to get to it. He said the belt wasn't too bad to do though. He'd not done a V6 before either. I've saved a fair wack of money in buying the parts at trade and paying 400 for fitting of them.

He is in the North West and says he's more than happy to do other Vees if people are interested.

didn't realise this car would cost me so much to maintain though. Just bought 6 new coils (170) and 6 NGK sparkplugs (70) to fit over the weekend. When will it all be over! Think it's the age of the car. Hopefully it's just the 24K service in 2K then should be playing sailing for a good few years!

Matt.
 
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