Stilo How to change the 1.6 Timing belt

OK I'm going to assume you know have your O/S wheel off, car jacked up and secure on an axle stand, wheel arch plastic removed, engine cover off and battery disconnected? (Note to Multiwagon owners, open the boot before battery disconnect and make sure you don't close it with anything you may need whilst doing the job).

OK now your ready to get dirty.

1. You now need to get the end caps off your cam shafts to lock them in position.
Next to your battery you will see Two rectangle plugs with red clips that are connected to a ECU (I think) - before removing them use your Tippex and mark one or the other, i marked my left one with "L".
If you look on the front you will see the red clip has grip marks on, if you press that gently in and lift they should come free, if not spray a little amount of wd40 on the hinge (only a little though).
Place these plugs out of the way, you can cover them with some masking tape for piece of mind.
Now you have the engine management ECU bear remove all the 10mm bolts that hold it in place and put it to one side, there are a couple of pipe holders on there which you can unclip or remove the bolts - which ever take your fancy. PUT THE ECU SOMEWHERE SAFE!!!!!!!

You will now be left with the ECU housing - this is a bit fiddly - i found that using a socket and angled ring spanner was the trick here. There are 4 11mm nuts holding it in position, remove these but hold on to the nuts (no pun intended).
You should now have your cam end caps visible,




there are two bolts in the middle of the caps with wires. they are 13mm remove them and move aside.
there should now be a few more 11mm bots left remove them. You may find the caps don't want to move after all the bolts are out, don't worry this is normal they just need a little coaxing. With a small flat screwdriver pry gently around the edges until it pops free


now mark the first one you remove - inlet or exhaust, the inlet is the front one and exhaust is the rear.

Phew you now removed the end caps, we need to move over to the other side of the engine.

Remove the Number 1 spark plug (obviously remove coil pack first)