Cam belt change interval?

MULLEY · Post by **MULLEY** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 11:16 pm

Is your's the 1.9 turbo xud? Thats might be why as its different to the 1.7/1.9n/a's & the 1.7 Turbo's that are fitted to BX's.

JayW · Post by **JayW** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 11:19 pm

Discoil wrote:I'll order a belt tomorrow

Better find all the locking tools and get it done

To be honest about it , I didn't think it was such a while since it was done until I read and followed this thread. Many thanks .

Locking tools? You mean a long allen key for the flywheel and a bolt through the cam & pump pulleys

Discoil · Post by **Discoil** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 11:36 pm

JayW wrote: Locking tools? You mean a long allen key for the flywheel and a bolt through the cam & pump pulleys

When I was working at the citroen dealership I made a flywheel peg/bar to get around the starter motor and yes,, bolts for the pulleys .

ben · Post by **ben** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:40 am

MULLEY wrote:Brilliant garage giving out the wrong info. I presume all XUD engines regardless of which car they were fitted to & when the car was in production is still 48k or 5yrs? I presume the DW8 engines & all the other slight variants are 72k?

They've actually got a really good name to be fair

KevR · Post by **KevR** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:41 am

It's incredible that they work anyway.
Take the head off and try turning the cam by hand
And when you translate that to rotational power, it must be a few HP that the belt has to sustain

The same kind of belts are used as final drive belts on Harleys, Buells and some BMW bikes - if they can put up with that, driving a cam is easy!

kiwi wrote:While your changing it do the water pump as well. Saves on the labour costs at a later date as the pump is more likely to leak after being disturbed by the cambelt change.
btw, Harry Haynes says 36,000miles it is a matter of opinion though how often it should be done! After 36k your on borrowed time.

+1 for doing the pump as well - they're cheap and a common failure point so it's daft not to. Reminds me I need to do mine - 60k miles and counting...
Mind you the only one I've ever had fail gave up after about 10k miles - Xantia 1.9 TD. Bent all the valves and snapped the camshaft in two, on a slip road to the Peripherique in Paris. How we laughed...