Something similar to my 205 gti track car with a MI16 1.9l 16v engine from a 405 shoehorned into it! It has 2 cambelt tensioners on that you have to get evenly tensioned otherwise it knocks the timing off slightly. I don't bother fitting the covers as its nearly impossible to get them off again!
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Something similar to my 205 gti track car with a MI16 1.9l 16v engine from a 405 shoehorned into it! It has 2 cambelt tensioners on that you have to get evenly tensioned otherwise it knocks the timing off slightly. I don't bother fitting the covers as its nearly impossible to get them off again!
Just realised I got the names mixed up
Smilies were the last of the Diamond White.
Newer ones were Frozen White.
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The Esprit's belt was supposef to be set with special acoustic gauges, spring balances, rune stunes, ouija boards and god knows what else... I just set it so that on the longest run you couldn't quite twist it 90 degrees and then turned the key. It was still working fine when I sold it...
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Possibly on the right hand side...P reg was 1976
I wonder if local marks are still present.
I'm sure around here was HR or HN or something. Can't remember where abouts on the registration but I'm sure there was a two letter region code in years gone by.
I've heard of a few track cars where kitty-litter got under the timing belt . . .
I must have a thing with crap access in Italian cars - my 159 uses a GM V6 - in Cadilacs etc, changing the three stretched timing chains, two idlers, three tensions, various guides and four cam variator sprockets takes not too long at all - its all at the front of the engine at the front of the car . . . in the Alfa its a finger width off the offside inner wing - engine has to come out . . . a two day job . . . and the only way to tell you got it all set up correctly (theres a mark on all chains, fit two, rotate engine 110 degrees, fit the last chain, pop the pins out of the tensioners . . ) is when you turn the key and it starts . . . which is when people discover the misfire/hesitation . . I noticed that on pulling the pin on one tensioner, it pulled the cain over one tooth before going tight . . . I put it back - mine runs okay.
(A good design from GM - so - three attempts at getting it right and stopping the chains stretching - starts off as fault codes and crap running - the first cure from GM was to reprogramme the ECU to accept more variance in the crank and cam sensors as the chains stretched . . . which got most out of warranty . . .)
I've been doing timing belts that way for years & never had a problem. Also do vee belts that way.
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"on the longest run you couldn't quite twist it 90 degrees" - this was how I was taught to do it - at collage and in the workshop.
Most cambelt tensioners - either have "tension mark" or are "automatic" now thou.
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I seen to be replacing more camchains than I cambelts of late!
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It's still there, but whereas there used to be a local vehicle licensing office on every corner, now there are just a handful and they issue a narrower range of 'area codes'. My van carries HV; we bought it from Portsmouth so I guess HV is short for Havant, just down the road.
Up here we used to have DC, XG and VN... now all northeast plates are split between two area offices, so NA to NL are one office and NM to NY the other.
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I know... but I'm old and P-reg will always be '76P prefix was 96
There's a bit less than a handful - all shut in 2013.
