cambelt

Anyone know how many hours a garage would quote to do a cambelt and tensioner on a 2.8 fronty or 3.1 trooper? Looking for a bit of haggling power on a possible purchase. Price of parts would be good also, ta

Auto data is telling me 1.90 hours, I would take that as just over two hours I think, you should get the kit for about £70 to £80 :wink:

Cheers Ste, a rough estimate of £250ish then :wink:

I usually work hourly rates at £45 an hour so with the garages add to the parts and 20% VAT say £210

Hi Jim,
Retro & myself are doing mine in 3 weeks time and we're allowing 4 hours & Pete has done one before.This is because a pulley can be a bit of a bitch to get off unless you have in impact wrench (I think that was what Pete said - not sure which pulley he was talking about though)

Kit cost me £65.00 off flebay + postage

Fitting charge £0.00 - Ok a few beers at the annual meet and petrol money

Power of FOG - Priceless :lol:

210 beer tokens to do a 2.8 cam belt :shock:

...... B****r that for a game of soldiers. Buy the kit and invest 50% of the balance in a set of spanners/sockets and get yer hands dirty. It's not difficult. And you will learn something about your truck while your doing it. In fact I reckon the 2.8 has to be one of the easiest ones I've ever done.

Might as well swap the water pump as well while your in there, saves having to drag it all apart again.

That nut in the middle sticking out :wink:

Think you are missing the point guys, he is looking for 'worst case scenario' having to pay for it, for everything, how much might it be, he can then use this figure as a bargaining chip in his, erm, negotiations

We answered that, we just got interested in oily chat :lol:

oh yeh, couldnt see, cause of the stooopid cat sat in front of the monitor :oops:

You've got it Ste - when I did mine the 4 bolts that secure the bottom pulley to the crank shaft had a lot of surface rust and I rounded a couple off - then I forced a smaller socket on and gave them a whack with a hand held impact driver and that done the trick.
I know my motor had been standing for a few months before I bought it so surface rust did give me aggro when doing certain jobs, this was one of them. With the ability to lock the fuel pump up, I found doing the cam belt on the 2.8 straight forward. I used a fisherman's hand held scales to gauge the tension when tensioning the belt up. Book of lies refers to hanging weights on the tensioner before tightening.

Get him to do it and get a ton knocked off :wink:

What are the intervals for the belts anyway, the car has 82k on it.

If I remember correctly 60K :wink:

Well, its either not long had one, or its slightly overdue one :lol: