S7 Lives Again :-)

Well the S7 lives again, cam cover refitted along with the fan and fan belts.
Timing reset to 8 degrease BTDC with a timing gun.

I have also I have changed the oil and oil filter .

Video taken on a mobile phone so the sound is not that good!

Cam Belt

As I said in the my last post I had the cam belt break on me when we were away the Cotswolds camping trip. This cam belt is only a year or so old and as you can see from the above photo it has failed in a big way. On closer inspection it looks like the belt has got contaminated by engine oil as there is hardly any wear on it.

The engine stripped of its timing gear

The auxiliary shaft cover removed from the engine block, note the damage to the oil seal.

It looks to me like something has at some point got in between the oil seal and Auxiliary pulley - maybe a stone of some other foreign body, even with a cam belt cover fitted to the engine.

The cam shaft oil seal also has a very slight oil weep so I'm going to renew this at the same time.

The new oil seal fitted to the cam shaft.

And a new oil seal to the auxiliary cover.

The auxiliary cover fitted back onto the block.

Timing pulleys refitted.

And a new cam belt, engine is now set back up on its timing marks.

I hope to have the job finished tomorrow and the engine running again.

Cotswold Camping 2010

Hoody Bear at the bar

We went away for a RHOCaR camping to the Cotswold's and what a great time we had too.

We stayed at the Norman Knight pub which was great, great food, it's own micro brewery and a very nice but small well kept camping field with access to the pub for showers and toilets.

Friday afternoon we went for the ProDrive factory tour, what can I say but what a brilliant place, various Aston's and Subaru's in different states of preparation or repair for racing and rallying, engines and boxes being either built, reconned or being put through their paces on test rigs. And on top of that loads of historic race and rally cars in the heritage centre that you can hop in and out of, including both Colin McRae and Richard Burns' Subaru's.

Saturday we had a Run out, I got as far as Moreton in Marsh when I had the cam belt on the S7 snap, but as I have a pinto fitted in the car no harm was done and the RAC patrol that came out to me had a new belt in the van, so with the patrolman's help (who turned out to be a total star) we replaced it at the side of the road , I did at one point have visions off me going home with the Hood on the back of a recovery truck. The rest of the RHOCaR guys & girls went on a very scenic trip round the Cotswolds, stopping for lunch in Bourton on the Water, and passed a well known Top Gear presenters house, then back to the pub by four thirty with me and the repaired S7 turning up about five minutes later.

Sunday morning we packed up our tents after breakfast as some of the group were off on another run out to a pub for lunch, the rest of us had booked in for lunch at the Norman Knight. afterwards we had a walk round the village before saying our goodbyes and making our way home.

MOT

Took the S7 for its MOT today, which it sailed through.

So I'm all sorted for another year :-)