Timing belt and front seals

[hennabm]

Originally Posted by AndrewBrown

The timing belt snapped on me when I was out to B&Q

just got into their car park and it cut out wouldn't start...bugger

Lucky it was the B21 non interference motor, so what happened was I went across the street to the local UNIPART branch got a timing belt, they had 6
of em, got the tools out of the tool kit and changed the belt in the car park
took about half an hour the belt went on easy without removing the crank
pulley, put all the covers back on did the shopping in B&Q then drove home.

A few weeks later Unipart went out of business!!

The moral of the story is always keep an eye on the condition of your
cambelt and NEVER under any circumstances sell me a cam belt for a Volvo 245DL

I never told the wife it broke down she used to say I should get a better newer car but has come round to old classics

Imagine if it had on something modern and 16valve...cambelt snaps, Hello Scrapyard

I did similar to a 1600cc VW Passat (X reg as in 1981).