or perhaps the folks who designed my car. to change the belt first you must undo one motor mount...not exactly what I had in mind for a Saturday project. (grumble over)
Rex
There was another vehicle (don't remember) where you had to use a hoist to remove the plugs.
Well. Those ol' Volvos had a timing belt even the newer 07's and new stuff. You changed the basturd thing by 120k miles like the book said or the valves crashed and it totals a $5-6k motor. Oh and the pendulum mount was illogical Swedish design where you had to apply pressure from below of car to release sideways tension on bolt on top of engine mount... There was no grumble. Only a neighbor that threw his 400 lb ignorant butt into a cheater bar at full running sprint (ignorant southerners you know), bent the cheater bar, and had us all cussing because a Volvo wasn't a old Ford. Then it became its a Volvo you have to use your brain and Vida/Dice dealer manuals to dissect it but not BMW bad. At least TASCA parts has all the Vo parts if you need it. They got Mazda and ford parts too etc. And unlike a V6 sideways mounted in a Honda I change my own coils and spark plugs rather easily. The power steering tank is under a freaking headlight that the dealers never even bothered to put CHF11s pentosin on. Lol. And mom's Audi TT had this proprietary bolt pattern not metric or SAE type sockets. I basically grumbled so hard at Audi.
Got a buddy into old timer VW beetles. The old ones with timing chains. You wouldn't believe how much he cusses actual timing chains and claims they lose timing at half the mileage than any belt design. He totaled a few motors when the chains snapped too. Gotta take the grumbles with a ice cold beer and a couple of laughs dude. Even as an
engineer student bro I got laughing so hard. It's like did they design this car without trying to stick a wrench it screwdriver into that spot? Unbelievable. Yes they did. Just a big old solidworks/CAD computer game to a bunch of nerds until some poor dude has to take it apart in a certain order or it's not coming apart!
The one I saw had a chain on it. And its owner was always pissed the timing was off. Can't speak for all models or years if the motor was swapped or not.“Old timer VW Beetles” had no timing chains. Or belts. They had a gear on the camshaft that meshed with a gear on the crank.
Speaking of crank, stop doing it.
The one I saw had a chain on it. And its owner was always pissed the timing was off. Can't speak for all models or years if the motor was swapped or not.
It wasn't a stock VW engine. Some moron stuck a foreign engine into it. Beater car. Long story. The engine was rear mounted but it appeared almost lawnmower like in size. About two Kohler riding lawnmower motors in height. It was just surreal all rust covered and unmarked. Owner bragged about getting the car cheap from a junkyard.
BMW Z3, dissasemble front end of car for literally anything. Stepdad dumped it. When it worked right it was a fun car to drive similar to a German version of Miata. Very fun car around corners. The mechanical components weren't bad. It's always the stupid Bosch ECU proprietary code garbage that you need dealer tools or ripoff variants to electrically reset. And sadly the Bosch coding only got more complex with newer models of anything. If only they had turbocharged it. I'll never buy a BMW. Ultimate driving machine, **when it drives**! Ultimate mechanic's nightmare!! I still see a few occasionally and laugh.
There was another vehicle (don't remember) where you had to use a hoist to remove the plugs.
I think it was the 74 Chevy Vega, but only for one plug.
I think you are thinking about a V-8 Monza..... They required loosening the engine mount and lifting the engine a bit to get the rear plugs out.
Vega's were about as easy to work on as one could get.
"[FONT="]Well, there is another Vega that was available that didnt have the little 4 cylinder engine in it. It came from the factory with a V8 squeezed under the hood. "
Never happened.... there never was a factory V-8 Vega.[/FONT]
Would have sworn there were factory V8 Vegas. At least in station wagon trim. (wikipedia says not) My friend's girlfriend had one. I helped him put two rear ends under it before she moved on. He had something of a heavy foot, and the ring gear couldn't take the load of moving that heavy chassis. This was '78 - '79 time frame. I know for sure they came out with a Cosworth engine in a very few Vegas.
They were a real hoot in bracket racing with a stripped down chassis and a hot 383. I know several people that raced them with great success.
mid 80's trans am had to break loose the right motor mount and jack up the engine a bit to get to the #8.
BMW Z3, dissasemble front end of car for literally anything. Stepdad dumped it. When it worked right it was a fun car to drive similar to a German version of Miata. Very fun car around corners. The mechanical components weren't bad. It's always the stupid Bosch ECU proprietary code garbage that you need dealer tools or ripoff variants to electrically reset. And sadly the Bosch coding only got more complex with newer models of anything. If only they had turbocharged it. I'll never buy a BMW. Ultimate driving machine, **when it drives**! Ultimate mechanic's nightmare!! I still see a few occasionally and laugh.
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