Coolant really just smelt sweetly of antifreeze. I'll go and stick my nose right in later. I think I'll just put a new bottom hose on for now and worry about a PRT later when I've decided if she's well enough behaved, and after at least one more coolant change. Currently waiting for an 8mm...

Just went for it :) and got tons done (by my standards). The cams are now aligned. Please verify. Drained the coolant. Oh Dear. The bottom hose was crunchy so, rather then fight with the clip on the rad I just sawed through it. Photo of the coolant and hose attached. K-Seal anyone? The tensioner...

Chaps, please verify my crank alignment before I pull the belt. Ta

As @Mick X11 said, the disc has to be finalised. I've also found in similar situations that burning the disc at lower speed can help (though it shouldn't). Remember, burn it as an audio CD not data CD.

I was expecting some kind of battle to the death but the crank pulley came straight off with no struggle. Just need better light (and better glasses) so I can see the pulley properly (and get rid of the multiple tippex marks that the previous idiot has daubed on). A lot of tippex has been used...

Hmmmm. A diesel ZT would suit me just at the moment as I'm about to change jobs and the XC70 burns a bit too much fuel, what with being AWD and automatic. It's that or an X-type at the moment. I suspect this may unleash the hounds!

That's alright chaps. You just chat among yourselves :D:D

Belts and water pump. I'd rather not go back in there for a while.

Bit easier to work on like that. It's tough to line the cams up when the engine is slightly canted and the wing is in the way... ...and your eyes are getting old and dim :(

Right. Bring it on :cool:

More sarcasm I'd say. They both look high because one has passed alignment before one has reached it. In a way I'm glad that I don't have to stress about keeping everything aligned and can just get on with setting everything correctly. I'm right in thinking that with the crank timing mark lined...

Yes, I hear you need hands like Donald Trump to do that job. You could just lift the body off ;)

Sorted. Nothing is easy on this car o_O

Span the engine round a couple of time to make sure I wasn't mad. If you look at the photo then the left cam hasn't jet reached level and the right cam has already passed. How easy is it to turn the crank once the pulley is off and you can see the marks? Should I lock the crank in place via...

Cheers @Nodge68 . My concern was which pulley is correct, if either. So essentially have to time it up from scratch. It makes me wonder how it drove. Perhaps that's why it was left to rot at the back of a car yard. I've not driven it more than 100yds since I've had it! I'll get the bottom pulley...

It's no trick. I'd say one tooth out. And that's before I've been at it! I'll do another lap and see what happens.

At last. Time! PAS and alternator belts off, lined up cams to take the old belt off. Now this looks odd to me - the cam sprockets don't line up neatly like in RAVE. It looks like the left cam has gone too far and the right not far enough - like the old belt was on wrong. Thoughts please. AND is...

My comment was not to say that we weren't living in an increasingly authoritarian society, but to say that the current wave of authoritarianism is a capitalist flavour, not a communist one. I wasn't aware that we lived in a socialist democracy, more a capitalist society with an 'as little as we...

It would have nothing to do with communism as I don't see the workers rising up to seize control of the means of production. Not everything that people don't like is 'communism'.

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