Its it the same as a sapph, and does the rad have to come out ???

Cheers,

Al..........

 

Never had to remove the Rad on mine, sometimes the bottom pulley doesn't want to come off that can cause a problem.
Hope it helps.

 

bottom pully doent have to come off either - if its nice and tight, leave it well alone.... you can slide the new belt behind it and onto the crank witha bit of jigling. the only thing i do to help is to remove the top hose off the water pump and the belt cover (obviously) as you can get to see everything you need - mine has no aircon btw... whether that makes much differene in space...?

 

On mine you couldn't remove the cambelt cover without the bottom pulley removal.

 

what had those butchers done whan they rebuilt it?!?

there are the 3 torx bolts at the top, then 1 6mmbolt witha collar on it through teh bottom, with these 4 bolts out, it just lifts up and out - witha bit of wiggling about

 

Remmember that my belt cover is different....

 

of course - -YBP

 

Yep....


We did it a year ago. AFAIR we took radiator out to put pneumatic wrench through to loosen bottom puley, had to move aircon rad a bit too. I'm only talking about the time when we did water pump as well so I might get something wrong...

 

didnt know the YBP cover was that much different - does it completely encase the front of the engine, oil leaks and all ?

 

Yep, you don't see much of the front of the engine, no leaks visible too.

 

dont know if thats a good thing or a bad thing

mine would be full - you could dip the engine oil from teh cam cover on mine if that wre the case at the moment