Marea Photo how-to: Marea 20v cam belt change

I then had to chop off the timing belt marker from the cover using a hacksaw in order to lift it out – it protrudes about ½” and makes clearance just that bit too tight otherwise. Before you do this, score the position of the timing point on the marker above the little lip, so you can check it on refitting. Once the cover is off, you should see something like this:


The inlet cam has no markings on, the exhaust has one but it didn’t easily line up with anything of note. I took a felt pen and after cleaning the pulleys and casing above, made marks on the pulleys and cam cover so I could see if anything moved. Also mark the crank pulley to make sure that stays put, too.

You can just about see the white tensioner pulley in the above picture, this is held with one 13mm nut which is best accessed from below. Once loosened, the pulley will swing and you can do a Haynes - ‘simply remove the old belt’. Do remember which way around the pulleys it goes, as the new one has to be just the same!