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Does my cambelt need replacing?
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I had a call from a friend of a friend, MK5 escort. Making a screeching noise and getting hot.
Will it be safe to drive? I said without looking i couldnt say. Sounds like the waterpump. Whilst its off consider a new belt also.
Anyway got a call later hes got a waterpump + belt and can i fit it.
Go round to fit it and remove the timing belt case, Seems to be full of cotton wool?
Quite a bit of this in there.. After a few handfuls of this stuff i could actually see the belt. All that was left of it was one 5mm strip of teeth along the one edge.
Seems he had driven nearly 3 miles to work and home with it screeching.
Waterpump had seized and just stripped the teeth off the belt turning it into a cotton wool like material.
He was so lucky he didnt need a new engine.Censorship Reigns Supreme in Troll City...0
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