andypdq wrote:I'm approaching 60, so I'm a grumpy old fart, I can't hold it in any longer. The timing drive of the Duratorq is abysmal. It's obvious how it could be sorted, but Ford never addressed the issue.
The inlet cam has a small angle of "wrap" regarding the timing chain and the cam sprocket, this is just bad, you don't have to be an engineer to see the problem. The slightest slack in the timing chain and the chain jumps and pistons hit valves, then rips the cam carrier from the cylinder head and they're both trash.
The obvious solution would be to place an idler sprocket towards the centre line of the engine to give a good wrap around the inlet cam sprocket. They went to this trouble with the serpentine auxiliary drive belt, but they couldn't be arsed to apply the same principle to the more important timing drive.
Help me understand???
Altransit wrote:But they have now sorted the issue
The new 2.0 Euro6 Transits now have a timing belt running in oil, which causes even more collateral damage when it fails
andypdq wrote:I have a 1966 Massey Ferguson 135 tractor, bought by my late father brand new, it has the Perkins 152 cubic inch 3 cylinder engine. It's been fantastically reliable. It's had one set of pistons and liners fitted, due to it completing over 10,000 hours of service, it has a substantial helical gear timing drive train, which is as good as new. No timing drive service required since 1966. Progress??
Altransit wrote:But they have now sorted the issue
The new 2.0 Euro6 Transits now have a timing belt running in oil, which causes even more collateral damage when it fails
andypdq wrote:Altransit wrote:But they have now sorted the issue
The new 2.0 Euro6 Transits now have a timing belt running in oil, which causes even more collateral damage when it fails
What? you're not showing signs of cynicism are you?
Your right altrannyAltransit wrote:andypdq wrote:Altransit wrote:But they have now sorted the issue
The new 2.0 Euro6 Transits now have a timing belt running in oil, which causes even more collateral damage when it fails
What? you're not showing signs of cynicism are you?
Cynical? Moi? Never
I was hinting, in my clumsy way, at the fact that the timing chain of the duratorq was/is inherantly more reliable than the belt of the later replacement, or even the earlier Di, (although not as catastrophic on the Di).
Some of the duratorq's have many hundreds of thousand miles on the clock without suffering any problems with the chain
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