davyboy888
16-02-2008, 05:53 PM
Living on the edge has been a hallmark of my life and more evidence of this emerged this morning when I found out that the cam belt on the 10 year old SEAT Ibiza I got from my dad a 4 years ago, which now has 62K miles on the clock, has never had a cam belt change !
I was thinking of doing the job myself but before I dive in, I just wondered if anyone out there has done it and if so how easy it is. In particular :
o Whether the motor has to come out of the car to do it.
o Whether I can simply undo a tensioner, slip the belt off and the new one on, or do I need to retime the engine... i.e. will anything move.
o Any other do's don'ts.
All help/advice welcome.
I was thinking of doing the job myself but before I dive in, I just wondered if anyone out there has done it and if so how easy it is. In particular :
o Whether the motor has to come out of the car to do it.
o Whether I can simply undo a tensioner, slip the belt off and the new one on, or do I need to retime the engine... i.e. will anything move.
o Any other do's don'ts.
All help/advice welcome.