MK5 smiley

[banger276]

Hi I have a MK5 smiley recovery truck...
Before Christmas I was driving home when all of a sudden it slammed itself out of gear and the engine died

On trying to start it again all it does is a single click it will not turn over or start up it just clicks


Any ideas please?

[bortaf]

have you checked the cam belt and if the engine will turn over by hand IE is it siezed ?

[banger276]

Cam belt looks okay and it's stiff as f*** when do by hand...if seized what could cause that?

[dumper]

With it slamming out of gear I’d be looking at the gearbox maybe something had broken inside or even ansnapped crankshaft not on a DI but have had York 2.4 snap on a genuine Ford exchange engine

[Altransit]

The cambelt may 'look' Ok, but they don't usually shred themselves on this engine. What happens is that they strip the teeth where they fit around the bottom pulley wheel, so the pulley rotates, but not the belt.

Worth double checking

[banger276]

Yea someone else did say gearbox too...Will get cam belt fully checked