Heard a noise on the st 205 this week and decided to take a look yesterday
The noise was a swishing noise from under the bonnet whilst running it sounded like the belts at first but they were ok so attention was turned to the cam belt and the top cover was removed
The belt had moved to the front edge of the cam sprockets and was showing a touch of wear it the front edge of the belt
Across the top of the cam sprockets the belt had a lot of play in it it was decided to strip and replace the lot
The tensioner was good as was the top tensioner pulley but the idler pulley was shot at with about 3mm of play in it so I'm thinking this was the cause of the slack belt and it moving across the cam sprockets
Had this gone south whilst running it would have been a top end rebuild so I'm a happy bunny at the moment and need to order the belt kit I normally stick with Toyota but is it worth buying HKS or similar
Baz
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