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740 Cambelt change - easy job or not?

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Old Aug 5th, 2010, 13:40   #21
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only takes 1 minute to drop the fan belts of,I would leave the water pump and replace if it fails in the future.
Yes, I did mine separately. The pump was getting noisy & the pulley could be 'wobbled' if I 'wiggled' it! If that makes sense? That is one of the good things about these engines in my mind. All quiet now with the replacement pump.

The cambelt was done later (as per earlier post on this thread). The previous cambelt was a Bosch one, fitted in UK by Swallows Volvo Specialist in Gosport Hants. It had done it's '4 years', though only around 25k miles but still looked as new.

Oh it did have timing marks on it too. Replacement was a Volvo one
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£150 ! that's expensive,the labour time is only 1 hour approx.

He said it will be an all day job, as the guy who doing it, is a very well trusted mechanic and has serviced our cars for years, and its pretty much him and his brother who do around 6 or 7 cars in their small garage per day, he's done me so many favours in the past, i trust him not to rip me off, he's a volkswagon specialist too, so hes not the average joe.

oh the belt tensioner is being replaced too.

may aswell have it all done!
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He said it will be an all day job, as the guy who doing it, is a very well trusted mechanic and has serviced our cars for years, and its pretty much him and his brother who do around 6 or 7 cars in their small garage per day, he's done me so many favours in the past, i trust him not to rip me off, he's a volkswagon specialist too, so hes not the average joe.

oh the belt tensioner is being replaced too.

may aswell have it all done!
that's fair enough,done many on this model,used to be able to do them in 20 minutes,think the book time is about 1 hour,but confidence with the chap doing the repair is worth a little more
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