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Service including sump and timing belt, what a pita that sump is. It did not want to budge after all the bolts were out. Crow bars and big hammers were needed int the end.
Sump was bad, got a warning in last year's MOT:
The exhaust heat shield can be removed enough to get the manifold bolts without removing the lambda. It's the engine lift that fouls it, little bit of force and it clears it:
And some hours of fighting and cleaning to get all the old gasket off:
New one on. And with a coat of black hammerite, not planned but moving it in scratched the paint going the exhaust, decided that's not a good start to someing that rusts so badly:
On to the timing belt. Really confused by the drain plug, the outlet is there but no valve and the gap at the side is less than a cm so no option for getting tools in there, bottom hose it was to drain it (and a trip to get a jubilee to replace the stupid crimp clip):
The waterpump, mini repeat of the sump again as it would not move, again bit of brute force with a crow bar levered it out, and the the joy of cleaning all the old gasket (why cant fiat use proper gaskets!!)
The timing belt itself was very straight forward, though that tensioner adjuster is worth the price of the timing kit alone. A bit of guess work on the tensioning to set it since you cant see it and set it.
After two spins of the engine then it was all still good.
Car started fine, no errors, I didn't set the cam bolt as it was correct after two turns of the engine.
Bleeding the coolant was odd. No water came out the heater hose will filling it. It only started to come out with the engine running, and then in starts and stops. Took about 4 attempts of letting it run and open and close the valve.
Sump was bad, got a warning in last year's MOT:
The exhaust heat shield can be removed enough to get the manifold bolts without removing the lambda. It's the engine lift that fouls it, little bit of force and it clears it:
And some hours of fighting and cleaning to get all the old gasket off:
New one on. And with a coat of black hammerite, not planned but moving it in scratched the paint going the exhaust, decided that's not a good start to someing that rusts so badly:
On to the timing belt. Really confused by the drain plug, the outlet is there but no valve and the gap at the side is less than a cm so no option for getting tools in there, bottom hose it was to drain it (and a trip to get a jubilee to replace the stupid crimp clip):
The waterpump, mini repeat of the sump again as it would not move, again bit of brute force with a crow bar levered it out, and the the joy of cleaning all the old gasket (why cant fiat use proper gaskets!!)
The timing belt itself was very straight forward, though that tensioner adjuster is worth the price of the timing kit alone. A bit of guess work on the tensioning to set it since you cant see it and set it.
After two spins of the engine then it was all still good.
Car started fine, no errors, I didn't set the cam bolt as it was correct after two turns of the engine.
Bleeding the coolant was odd. No water came out the heater hose will filling it. It only started to come out with the engine running, and then in starts and stops. Took about 4 attempts of letting it run and open and close the valve.
