Recent content by woofdog

Finally finished this job on Friday! Haven't test drove it yet as I need to put bumper back on and didnt have that much time Friday..... but it fired up and was idling nice and smooth on cold start. I reckon all in it took me about 10-12 hours lol but I was taking my time and cleaning up bits...

Finally getting round to finishing this job either tomorrow or Friday got all the last bits and bobs I need.. Last thing I will do before building back up is replace the cam seals.. assuming they will pop out nicely with no more 'special' Renault tools..!! Hoping they will be easily persuaded!

Yea it was pretty narly, so i just whacked it off with a large screwdriver as i knew i'd be replacing it anyway. Renault have just come back to me to say the official Renault documentation, references the wrong part number!!! So the right one for future ref is: 7700108817 Just means I have to...

here is the one they provided: note the keyway in left pic!

Was going to get this job finished today as i have a free day. So off i toddle to Renault to pic up new crank timing pulley as mine didn't look to clever by the time i tapped it off So i wanted to play it safe and replace. The pulley they have given me has a keyway in it and is not the same...

I doubt very much the fork will have snapped. if anything the tangs off the release bearing snap which makes it fall apart in the bell housing. I never understood why Ren don't make this part better.. unfortunately for you it is a box off job to replace. The clutch cable pulls the fork tight to...

Sounds like the bearing has packed up! They're crappy plastic ones i think...

Hi Levaz, thanks for the heads up.. so obviously the crank pulley is floating too... Thats why the markings i was looking at (kind of like a keyway on the crank cog) did not relate to the to timing!! Confused me a bit but got it now.. Hopefully !! :)

That amount of fuel use is insane... surely a leak..?? What about where the fuel line joins up to the fuel rail or something daft like that..?? Assuming you have checked all that stuff..?

Had a quick look this afternoon, i've got cylinder 1 at tdc and the cams don't line up for the horse shoe cam locking tool... Im assuming the timing must be slightly out..?? (it did stall on me a few times on idle.. but no lack in bhp at all...

I think its 14mm

Great tips thanks, especially on the crank pulley cheers!! My tools have turned up and I can see why they are expensive.. they are proper!! So hopefully have a window tomorrow to get the belts and pulleys swapped at least.. When you say spin the belt over backwards you mean with the cams locked...

So I've started this now.. I'm swapping out a noisy dephaser pulley and be silly not to do the cam belt while doing it! So Ive done a fair bit of research on this now.. I was going to pay out and get this done by a specialist and to be honest by the time you've bought the tools and belt kits...

Hello all, yes i know there are millions of threads on this and I should only use the right tools and should really get a specialist bla bla bla. Im starting the job next week, I've done a few belt changes and head rebuilds on simpler renault engines but not the F4R. So are these tools all i...