V60 D4 VEA cambelt service

[JamesAtthews]

Hi All

I'm just due to hit the 144k cambelt service for my v60. Has anyone done the cambelt on this car before? If so, has anyone got any pointers? The last one I did was a 1.9td fiat engine which an easy lump to work on. I'll be replacing the water pump and auxillary belt and tensioner, as they need to be done also.

Cheers

James

[Toprivetguns]

I'm fairly handy, however left this one to a volvo specialist. Once I priced all the parts up made more sense to let the professionals at it. Im aware you need a special tool to hold the crank pulley and impact gun to remove the nut. Ensure you use genuine Volvo parts.

[JamesAtthews]

Hi

Thanks for your reply. Just for the benefit of anyone in my position, preferring to do their own work on their car, I've attached the volvo service guide for the cambelt. Not sure if there are copyright issues, so apologies in advance. This document is the only thing I've found on the web for this.

I've got a mate who works in the trade, and as a yorkshireman, have deep pockets and short arms. Working on my car works for me, and I can trust myself!

You need the locking tool, but you clearly dont need to remove the pulley. You dont need anything else other than a torque wrench.

Cheers

[Zebster]

Originally Posted by JamesAtthews

Hi

Thanks for your reply. Just for the benefit of anyone in my position, preferring to do their own work on their car, I've attached the volvo service guide for the cambelt. Not sure if there are copyright issues, so apologies in advance. This document is the only thing I've found on the web for this.

I've got a mate who works in the trade, and as a yorkshireman, have deep pockets and short arms. Working on my car works for me, and I can trust myself!

You need the locking tool, but you clearly dont need to remove the pulley. You dont need anything else other than a torque wrench.

Cheers

Thanks for this, mine is approaching 90k miles (the revised change interval) so I was originally planning to replace my cam belt back in the summer. However the massively reduced usage due to COVID now means that it's been put off until next summer!

Back in 2014 I replaced the cam and oil pump/balancer chains on my diesel Accord. Although the official Honda workshop manual called up a whole list of special tools (including a 'locking tool' for the balancer assembly to allow the lower sprocket to be correctly torqued) I found it was easy to improvise these using a variety of things found in the garage (i.e. the shaft of a long 8mm masonry drill became the locking tool).

Good luck and please do provide feedback

[JamesAtthews]

Hi Zeb

Having seen the tool in the diagram, I do suspect that a drill bit would suffice. At £40, it's a little bit of a pi55 take for such a simple thing, but I guess they need to make money from owners who dont use their dealers as well🤫

I'll take some pictures and describe it once I've done it


Cheers

[Andris299]

hi i have just completed my friends timing bel but i didnt have a torque wrench to do the belts tensioner and i did tighten the nut fairly tight on it so i am a bit worried.is the nut torque spec for the tensioner nut only 10 nm?