driving home from Adams earlier, and going down the M62, then a horrible rattle from the engine, and a distinct loss of power

limp into the services and have a look at the engine to diagnose the problem, and the cambelt is slack

took cambelt cover off and the tensioner has dropped in bits, cambelt has skipped a few teeth on the pulleys and thrown the timing out totally



now the question is this............






























































how do you setup the camtiming on a ford 1.8 Diesel engine ?

 

AA

 

Good job its not the cossie...

 

AA?

more like "dads recovery" - one tow rope later, and one bollocking from a police man

 

fookin hell thought it was your cossie then paul

 

 

Thank fook it aint your cossie .

 

PMSL, i bloody panicked then you little sod!!!!!!!

 

pmsl ya sod!!!


Was trying to think of what I could say...


Hope ya sort it though hun lol

 

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Same thing happened to me years ago on the same engine, nylon tensioner melted, dropped the belt and smashed the engine to bits, was doing 100MPH, was a M Reg mondeo.

 

Why get a bollocking from the old bill ?? Hardly your fault is it ? You didn't ask the belt to slip !!!!

 

had this happen to me a few weeks back in my zetec fiesta, sat doing a ton+ then camer off the slip road and hooooorrirble noises but drove on to a lads house a mile or so down the road and we managed to fix it lucky!

 

You should have shown him your blue lights

 

he was maybe getting towed up the motorway

 

Got a bollocking from the old bill for free wheeling down the hard shoulder from heartshead moor services to the brighouse junction where my tow vehicle was waiting, altho it wasn't such a bollocking as a "well done, you've obviously got an aire of common sence to get the car off the motorway and safely on your way" - could quite easily have been 3 points that

Sean - the coppers both said that in a breakdown situation on the motorway, you are allowed to tow a vehicle using a rope as far as the next junction, just to remove the vehicle from the motorway


be reight - will get a new tensioner on monday and throw it in and see how we go


Gareth - can you explain the picture please

 

and sorry for panicing you lovely ladies

 

Ah well, we do care about your welfare dear boy

 

so how much is a tensioner then for this piece of shit?

 

Cossie ones are expensive mate

 

That's ok Gracie, i'll let you off this time

 

had this happen to me a few weeks back in my zetec fiesta, sat doing a ton+ then camer off the slip road and hooooorrirble noises but drove on to a lads house a mile or so down the road and we managed to fix it lucky!

 

had this happen to me a few weeks back in my zetec fiesta, sat doing a ton+ then camer off the slip road and hooooorrirble noises but drove on to a lads house a mile or so down the road and we managed to fix it lucky!

 

Stu - thats 3 times you've told us now


Nicole -

 

When you coming over for tea Mr??

Dan & Laura are over from Thursday next week, so it would be nice if all 6 of us go out for tea What you reckon?

 

i think that i'm day off on friday, but unsure as yet, will find out for you when the daily sheets go up for this week coming and let you know

 

I would take the cam cover off first, may find a snapped cam ... either way it will almost defo be Łcuked

 

Gracey why you always getting into trouble?

Shouldn't have been too hard to freewheel down that stretch of hard shoulder

Did you get any old fookers beeping at you?

 

sorry mate ive been drinking,, grab me tomorrow on msn and ill tell all