timing belt help please 300tdi

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sam260173

sam260173

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hi i have just had a timing belt fitted on a disco 300 tdi as i am skint after buying the car a mate fitted it for me as he said he had done them b4 now the car starts but sounds like a bag of nails has he got the timing wrong? if so what damage has he caused and what sort of cost will it be to put right ? maybe i should just sell it as scrap :mad:
 
ty for the reply i will have to find someone to do it as i know nothing about cars are the push rods expensive ? it sounds like someone hitting engine with a hammer and when u rev it the noise hurts your ears ive not moved it off the drive since i have got it back im too scared to drive it incase i cause more damage :confused2:
 
great lol whats the worst that can happen cos trust me when it come to me its always the really bad expensive things that go wrong never anything cheap and easy :frown:
 
ok it has been driven about 15 miles since it was done and ive started it a couple of times so my dad could listen to the noise could that cause more problems sorry for all the questions but i put every penny i owned into buying her and am now skint and no way of getting her fixed :frown:
 
okay ty i will try and find someone to come look at it for me (not the bloke who fitted the timing belt) and keep my fingers crossed its not f***ed :)
 
If you offer bacon sarnies and bake a cake,someone on here might come and help you-I would if it weren't so far
 
lol ty the problem is there never seems to be anyone local and everything in cambridge is soooo bloody expensive i can do bacon sarnies not sure about the cake lol :D
 
the bloke who done the belt said the engine is knackared but the noise wasnt there till after he done the belt it sounded fine b4 :confused:
 
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sam260173 said:
the bloke who done the belt said the engine in knackared but the noise wasnt there till after he done the belt it sounded fine b4 :confused:
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jamesmartin said:
that would tell me it was something he didnt get right
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Does sound rather fishy,

I would come and help Sam as I'm not a million miles away but I wouldn't know what to do if the rods are bent:confused:
change 'em I suppose.
 
If you have the time Barmatt,I would just re-align it to the timing marks and pins first,to see how it sounds-might get away with it.If you are lucky might be pump too far advanced causing diesel knock-If you do go,show her what you are doing so she learns for herself for next time
 
tdis with having cam at the side and push rods have a much greater chance of survival of belt failure or mis-timing when pistons hit valves than modern more common overhead cam types as push rods can bend easily ,you can check there okay after setting timing by checking valve clearances as a bent push rod will have a much greater clearance
 
biolandy said:
If you have the time Barmatt,I would just re-align it to the timing marks and pins first,to see how it sounds-might get away with it.If you are lucky might be pump too far advanced causing diesel knock-If you do go,show her what you are doing so she learns for herself for next time
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its been back to him once after the cam belt change as the fuel pump was making a bad noise so my dad had a spare fuel pump which he fitted he said part of the pump was broke ????? now its making even more noise banging and clanging and knocking etc it took him 5 days to get it started
 
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