diesels have cam belts dont they?

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diesels have cam belts dont they?

Post by cuffemark » Mon May 11, 2009 10:09 am

Greetings all at the risk of sounding a total twat diesel bongos have cam(timing belts) do they not?
Im chasing one at the mo and the owner thinks they dont have them, reckons they have chains instead #-o
I hold my hands up if im being a cabbage
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Re: diesels have cam belts dont they?

Post by Muzorewa » Mon May 11, 2009 10:14 am

Unless he's had the engine out of something else installed, it will have the normal timing belt we all know & love :wink:
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Re: diesels have cam belts dont they?

Post by dblake » Mon May 11, 2009 10:18 am

This is a family forum - i'd watch the use of the word cabbage! lol ;)
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Re: diesels have cam belts dont they?

Post by scanner » Mon May 11, 2009 10:54 am

Show them this diagram.

http://www.lushprojects.com/bongopartsm ... 1of02.html


It is unusual(ish) in that the injector pump is driven by gears from the crank which then drives the camshaft via a belt
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Re: diesels have cam belts dont they?

Post by renegade » Thu Jun 18, 2009 7:43 pm

Hi, i"am pretty sure that the injector pump is chain driven from the crank, but the cam shaft IS belt driven. :) .
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Re: diesels have cam belts dont they?

Post by scanner » Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:04 pm

renegade wrote:Hi, i"am pretty sure that the injector pump is chain driven from the crank, but the cam shaft IS belt driven. :) .
It's gears not a chain - I've been put right on this by "HWKWHTA" before

http://www.igmaynard.co.uk/bongo/forum/ ... rs#p275459
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