Cambelt Change

[driversdomainuk]

Hi

I am planning to change my clio 172's cambelt with my friend who is a mechanic...I need to know what tools (Renalut specific I need) and how many hrs it should take

Cheers
Rob

 

[davo172]

Hi

I am planning to change my clio 172's cambelt with my friend who is a mechanic...I need to know what tools (Renalut specific I need) and how many hrs it should take

Cheers
Rob

Would take it a specialist mate, not worth the risk if something goes wrong.

 

[.Ben.]

According to one garage I spoke to, it involves about 6+ hours of labour.

No idea on the tools. Tried speaking to a renault parts dept?

 

[driversdomainuk]

He builds race engines so should be fine working on a standard engine...I have just heard it is very fiddly as you have a big engine in a small car!!

 

[Heliosphan]

I was also quoted 6 hours when mine was done.

A crate of Stella usually helps.....as for tools, being a total non-mechanic I wouldn't have a f**king clue.

 

[shadowsun]

It's 6 hours approx. Renault quote for 7 I believe.

 

[James.f]

taken from 1 ov fred's post.

"you need 2 cam locking tools for the cambelt and the crank pin" also a Aux pulley to do the belt.

 

[Jonff]

He builds race engines so should be fine working on a standard engine...I have just heard it is very fiddly as you have a big engine in a small car!!

Doesn't the engine need lifting from the bay? I could be talking absolute b****cks here but I'm sure I've read/heard someone say that before.

 

[.Gem.]

There is a particular tool you need to do it, and Renault don't even supply them.

If I were you I would just book it in with a specialist and get it done properly, your mate may be good, but if he doesn't have this tool he will probably struggle.

Not worth doing it wrong IMO.

 

[James.f]

@ Jonff..Doubt it fella, as then everything connected would have to be disconnected and re-pluged after the belt done, to much of a job and would take more than said 6-7hours,

dont they support the engine then losen 1 engine mounts to gain a better acces to it? as driver side mount is only on with 3x13mm bolts, so would be easy to whip off.

 

[Jonff]

@ Jonff..Doubt it fella, as then everything connected would have to be disconnected and re-pluged after the belt done, to much of a job and would take more than said 6-7hours,

dont they support the engine then losen 1 engine mounts to gain a better acces to it? as driver side mount is only on with 3x13mm bolts, so would be easy to whip off.

Kind of what I meant really, just my poor description. I didn't mean they lift the whole engine out but like you say lift up one side of it.

 

[Fred@BTM]

you need the cam locking tools (available from renault)

pulley locking tool
cam locking tool
crank pin
plus aux tool (make one as the offical one is crap)

 

[.Ben.]

^ These:

 

[Christopher]

I don't understand the stigma with this job. :S

We did mine, on a driveway, in less than four hours. The tools are a must, though.

A 172 Cup belt set can be changed in a couple of hours. Dead easy.

 

[mark123]

Have you seen this?

http://www.fastchip.nl/media/doc/clio2/F4R_730.pdf

If you're competent it will be no problem. You need a decent range of normal tools though to get into all the small spaces.

You'll notice the Renault manual says you can do it without the pulley locking tool if you're not removing the cam pulleys. This won't give you as accurate cam timing as you would get if you used it though. I've done it both ways and using the pulley locking tool it does seem a much better way but it is 85 quid!

 

[Aluco]

You remove the bumper and wing as far as I know ?
Lifting the engine probably makes it a hell of a lot easier but a longer job.

Let your mate have a look over the fastchip guide and make sure hes confident doing it and use the proper tools. It will be ok, take shortcuts and it wont