Discussion
car is an ls3 ve maloo , the aircon belt jumped , new one put on , did not last long , i did not realise it had jumped it then got chewed a bit , up to that point i’m not that bothered , ive ordered the a c braket mod from oz , but the bit i am concerned about is it has caused an oil leak from what appears to be the front pulley , is it likely to be temporary now bits of belt is removed or do i have an issue ? any thoughts please
Cheers for the above , bolt and gasket ordered , it did not appear to be leaking after the belt had been removed when i was running it up , im concerned it was leaking before i took all the broken bent off , so maybe i will see what happens i’m not expecting the best , bolt i expect is very tight , the pulley special tool needed or a bit of brute force ? and i assume a case of prying out the old seal and tapping a new one in with the timing cover still in place , any other tips please ? , all this issue due to a belt jumping i wished i changed it before
After around 10 hours of trying to get the cam sensor out it’s snapped off and fell into the timing cover , ive managed to get pulley bolt off , need to get pulley off so bought the approved puller to do that , does the timing cover unscrew on its own or does the water pump have to come off to get the timing cover off , the pulley bolt plus around the pulley bolt had oil on it so that appears to be the issue
After around 10 hours of trying to get the cam sensor out it’s snapped off and fell into the timing cover , ive managed to get pulley bolt off , need to get pulley off so bought the approved puller to do that , does the timing cover unscrew on its own or does the water pump have to come off to get the timing cover off , the pulley bolt plus around the pulley bolt had oil on it so that appears to be the issue
Thank you to every ones help and advice , it was a bit of a pig of a job , but once you have done it once then easier in the future , front oil seal was in two parts so well gone , cam sensor as above took ages to try and get it out it finally snapped but was easy to take out with timing cover off , found an extra oil seal on the back of the pulley so that went back in , all appears ok i’m just waiting for ac mod pulley from aus , pulley bolt i ended up by doing it FT as i could not tighten it any more i can’t see it coming un done i did try and follow torque requirements , new water pump gaskets, timing gasket , crank bolt , pulley , cam sensor , it said put the timing cover back on then tighten the pulley then do timing cover up as the timing cover centres over the crank gasket better , im simple terms if the ac belt jumps just do the mod as it will jump again , all in all it’s cost around 500£ plus some import duty for ac mod as it’s not arrived yet , i got away with no damage on the first occasion the belt jumped second time no symptoms and a mullered oil seal , no engine damage slight loss of oil , due to plastic swarf from cam sensor i may do an oil change or is that over kill , would oil filter pick up the bits ? it more shavings from drilling the sensor than actual bits of it
on the vxr8 it’s pretty straight forward , i assume the same on a monaro ? drain some of the coolant , the main drive belt just loosen tensioner and take belt off , engine cover off , i took the fans off with the rad in situ as i needed more space but you maybe fine , two water pipes off rad bottom pipe off , 6 bolts to un do on the pump , it needed a bit of light tapping , two new water pump gaskets , just be careful of air locks , make sure the two heater matrix pipes and what they slide on to are dry first i had a little leak there , i filled it up as i was running it so air came out , until it got too warm so stuck the cap on , i then kept checking it , you don’t have to loose all coolant unless you are doing a full change , quite an easy job , what
went wrong with your pump , if you are local to me i don’t mind helping
went wrong with your pump , if you are local to me i don’t mind helping
Hi yes that’s the part , i put it in there for good measure , it was not a tight fit on the new pulley it is probably not needed but i took it off so may as well put it on , i found it on the floor and wondered where it had come from , FT was as tight as i could go plus i used a new bolt on it i would expect my FT to be the same as there tight , i could not go any tighter it won’t be coming off ,
If you are serious about coming up you are more than welcome and i will give you my address don’t forgey anti freeze it was the red one in mine
If you are serious about coming up you are more than welcome and i will give you my address don’t forgey anti freeze it was the red one in mine
The cam position sensor appeared cracked after the belt gave way , it appears the bit that goes in to the timing cover swells with heat so won’t come out , i was drilling it using a solder iron to try and melt it out it finally broke off inside but i was working on it for around 8 hours to no avail , the bolt puller for the crank pulley was no good as no holes to screw the bolt into so i had a normal 2 leg pulley that worked , the bolt on the pulley was easy enough to get off but as above not easy to tighten , foot on brake hand brake on 5th gear and that was enough , it was tight as i could go , still not sure if i should oil change or not ?
Gassing Station | HSV & Monaro | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff