240 General: valve frendly engines ?

[timway]

My advice would be to do away with the cambelt completely and drive the camshafts using the windscreen wiper motor

[Velorum]

Originally Posted by timway

My advice would be to do away with the cambelt completely and drive the camshafts using the windscreen wiper motor

It would need to be on the fast wipe setting unless going uphill against gravity when the intermittent setting would need to be used.

Otherwise I like your thinking here, at last we seem to be getting somewhere.

Would this work on planets with less gravitational pull that the earth?

[kamikaze !]

Originally Posted by Ian Hutchinson

Good god! No more red wine for me this evening................

would you pour you wine down the sink & drink brake fluid ?
i cant see why spending £10-£15 on a new belt when i know it will only get broken again when i can use somthing at at hand for £0 which i still know will break !
but no one has yet to say, is there valve contact !

Originally Posted by Ian Hutchinson

If I was marooned on a distant planet with no breathable atmosphere I think that a Volvo cambelt would be the least of my worries.........

very astute there sir, however i was using a splash of "poetic licence" but as you very rightly say if one was marrooned on a distant planet(or even a not so distant planet) volvo cambelts would not be the highest priority on ones "to do" list

Originally Posted by kamikaze !

would you pour you wine down the sink & drink brake fluid ?
i cant see why spending £10-£15 on a new belt when i know it will only get broken again when i can use somthing at at hand for £0 which i still know will break !
but no one has yet to say, is there valve contact !

i dont know about pluto.... but this ones certainly on the planet zog!

[Velorum]

Originally Posted by kamikaze !

would you pour you wine down the sink & drink brake fluid ?
i cant see why spending £10-£15 on a new belt when i know it will only get broken again when i can use somthing at at hand for £0 which i still know will break !
but no one has yet to say, is there valve contact !

Ah, valve contact - this is what we want to know about - not drinking brake fluid down the drain and wiper motor lash ups on pluto.

Well done sir.

[davebslater(uk)]

to which engine do you refer ?

[Velorum]

Originally Posted by davebslater(uk)

to which engine do you refer ?

At this point in proceedings I dont really think that this is important.

[kamikaze !]

Originally Posted by davebslater(uk)

to which engine do you refer ?

4 cyl ohc petrol


thought someone whould of got it from my signature by now ?

or did no one clink the link i gave ?
work it out from that !
or cant any of you see further than the end of your volvo bonnets ?

[bb54]

Originally Posted by Ian Hutchinson

Yes, I know what you mean old chap. Despite myself I cant help but laugh - I am on my 3rd glass of red wine however.

(I do find the signature 'old grannies wanted' slightly disturbing though)

guess how much im smiling now

wayne