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Which cars survive cambelt failure with no engine damage, apparently there are some out there.
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My Cortina MK4/5 did!
Depends on whether there is any clearance when the piston is at the
top of its stroke & the valves are fully open. I don't think many manufacturers put this info in their brochures...
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My Mk1 astra 1600 did, presumably cavaliers with same engine also.
Further more after RAC arranged my recovery to a nearby garage new cam belt was fitted within 30 mins & I was on my way with a bill of under £10 for the replacement cambelt (first half hours labour paid by the RAC). So much for modern technology.
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Vauxhall SOHC 8v engines, ie 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 2.0, MAY survive a cambelt failure.
The valve heads are perpendicular to the piston crowns so can survive the damage. There is however a major risk, around 50:50, that one of the hydraulic tappets (more properly called lash adjusters) will be forced too far and split the head by hydraulic oil pressure.
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My Cortina MK4/5 did!
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and mine but it was a 1.6L. The AA said the 2.0 were usually damaged.
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Re: Cortina
Mine was a 2.0... Ghia spec - You should have seen the toys!
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Austin Maestro I believe, not sure whether 1.3 or 1.6.
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Austin Maestro I believe, not sure whether 1.3 or 1.6.
Must be the 1.6, because the 1.3 was the "A" (or more accurately A+) series engine which was OHV.
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MX-5 is a non-interference engine (1.6 at least). Just replace belt (may be wise to replace idler pulleys at the same time).
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Fiats such as Uno and Punto with FIRE engines - not sure but I think they all have square oil filler caps.
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Henry K,you're back to front;Cortina 2.0 were safe-big combustion chamber-1.8 was usually OK;1.6 had a 50/50 chance and the 1.3 OHC(only sold in Europe-UK took 1.3OHV)always broke.
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As our Secretary came up the drive into the car park the cambelt snapped on her Nova. Not sure whether 1.0 or 1.2.
However the local garage man came up and fitted a new one in no time at all and no problems afterwards.
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Was there ever a 1.8 Cortina in the UK? There was a 1.8 Sierra but only from 1985 on I thought.
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Was there ever a 1.8 Cortina in the UK? There was a 1.8 Sierra but only from 1985 on I thought.
I was thinking that, no 1.8 Cortinas, in fact no 1.8 Pinto engines hence the 1.8 Sierra have a longtitudinal CVH where as the 1.6 a 2.0 were Pinto until the 2.0 was fitted with the DOHC 8v in IIRC late 88.
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Was there ever a 1.8 Cortina in the UK?
1.3, 1.6 and 2.0 4 cylinders
> was a 1.8 Sierra but only from 1985 on I thought.
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Yes I had one until a year ago. I was thinking that, no 1.8 Cortinas, in fact no 1.8 Pinto engines hence the 1.8 Sierra have a longtitudinal CVH where as the 1.6 a 2.0 were Pinto until the 2.0 was fitted with the DOHC 8v in IIRC late 88.
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My 88 1.8 had the same basic lump as my previous Cortinas.
None of this CVH funny heads stuff.
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Henry K,you're back to front
Thanks for the update. I was only quoting the AA recovery bod.
Perhaps I was lucky then cos just a new belt was fitted by a trusted independant and all was OK.
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Years ago I had to go and rescue one of our staff who broke a cambelt on a 2lt Cortina. That was back about 1980 and the motor was as dead as a maggot. New engine needed. That would have been the Pinto motor.
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The mother out law's 1.3CVH Escort survived two low speed breakages with no damage.
There are some other posts, and links to photos, elsewehere on this site (possibly from Dave W) that suggest the PSA HDi unit suffers less damage than might be assumed.
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Citroen AX 1100 survived, broke down on Easter Friday 10 miles from Ribblehead, fixed on Saturday by local garage who I would praise to the heavens if I could just remember their name!
Home on Easter Monday.
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Single cam-per-bank Subarus are non-interference. Double cam aren't.
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A Vauxhall Magnum 1800, bought with just over 13k on the clock in 1977, had a cambelt failure about 10 days after I bought and survived.
It was on a dark, wet and windy November night and I tried all the usual ignition checks without success.
I eventually found out that it was the cambelt, the first car I had ever had with one...:-)
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What\'s for you won\'t pass you by
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I had a Mitsubishi Colt GTi-16v which survived a cambelt snap. It was a bit 'tappety' afterwards though.
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Ah yes that vauxhall engine was'nt that known as the cam in head engine with small push rods & rockers... or am i totaly wrong i'm sure someone will inform me
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A Vauxhall Magnum 1800, bought with just over 13k on the clock in 1977, had a cambelt failure about 10 days after I bought and survived.
I broke the cambelt on my 1600 FD Victor, as I was in the middle of using it to pull out some deeply rooted rose bushes.
No damage done, but no end of trouble changing the belt - the one of the pulley markings was in the wrong place so it would only run when I had that pulley in the 'wrong' place - I must have tried the camshaft in every possible combination trying to find a decent setting - just as well it was non-interference!
I think the FD was one of the first cars to use a belt?
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