value?

[charles]

The last tine I had to investigate a cam belt (in a 1971 Cortina), I found it was toothed, so couldn't slip. It had broken, "fixed" by a breakdown service - one tooth out !

[MrCheerful]

A friend drove a pinto engined sierra for several years, eventually he asked to have the cam belt changed, it had been one tooth out since before he bought it, after I had set it all up correctly, he complained that the engine was less flexible and he had to change gear more often. The cam had been one tooth retarded.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Trouble with Facebook is the ease of posting pics. Meaning you get lots of rather boring ones. On a forum where you have to use a hosting site for pics, the extra effort tends to make only relevant ones used.

This group will certainly die out along with the old farts who post on it. As has happened to pretty well all others.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Amateur radio does seem to attract a large number of cooks. Dunno why.

All the moderated forums I use - mostly car related - work very well. If you look at similar on Facebook, they are awash with just pics of the cars. Which most already know what they look like. Those who are the most knowledgeable about a make and likely to give decent help with a problem seem to prefer forums. Perhaps their experience has come with age, of course.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

The shield only arrived on later Minis. Early ones had nothing - then that rubber glove round the dizzy.

Seems the prototype(s) had the dizzy at the back. Which then caused carb icing with the carb at the front. Which is why they turned the engine round and had to add an intermediate gear.

[Andrew]

If they do I believe it's an MOT failure, or at the very least an advisory item.

[Andrew]

err, they are all toothed belts, it's the only way to maintain correct registration between crankshaft and camshaft(s).

They do indeed 'slip', by jumping around the sprocket and this is how the valves and pistons have a deadly embrace (on some cars).

He's been offered £75 to come and colect the car for scrap, which is a good deal. Possibly because the scrappy is betting on an oil change, suck out the water from the cylinders and an instant £600 profit.

[Andrew]

Or in the case of minis and 1100's simply driving in heavy rain could flood the distributor.

[GB]

I guess scrap prices must have fallen. I got £200 (collected) for the Punto a few years ago. I rang round, and the offers varied quite a bit: £50-200 IIRC.

[Bob Eager]

Happened to my Land Rover once in those conditions, south of Canterbury. I had to get all the passengers out to stand round the engine compartment as a windbreak while I used the silicone spray.

Then off we went again!

[Bob Eager]

Yes, that's right. Despite the slight loss of power.

Read "The Mini Story" by Laurence Pomeroy - the dizzy stuff is in there. Some weird and wonderful minis in there - the Moke, of course, but also the Twini (two engines, front and rear).

[Jethro_uk]

as long as the boot is intact and seated, and the tie isn't fouling anything , it's a pass.

We had a special tool that came with a ribbon of galvanised steel and a bag of end pieces. You folded the ribbon over the end piece, wrapped it twice around the boot, and used the tool to tighten, bend and cut in one. Never came off.

Cable ties .... well, they're cable ties. Not CV joint clips.

[Jethro_uk]

I think they're on the up.

2-3 years ago, we sometimes had 3 scrappies *a day* up & down.

Then nothing for about a year.

Just started hearing (one) again.

[John Rumm]

Probably true, although its interesting that its has survived so much better than many of the others. If you ignore the politics etc, there is still quite a large volume of on topic stuff still covered.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Pretty rare a recently running car is used only for scrap. Normally dismantled for any useful parts. Which won't be just the engine.

[MrCheerful]

not round here, there are now very few 'breakers' Land prices are too high for them to keep going. Scrap places are taking in complete runners, often under ten years old, they have the fluids removed, batteries and alloy wheels removed, catalytic converters cut off, the engine/box is torn out with a grab, and the remainder goes in the crusher, then, elsewhere the remains are torn apart and separated on a conveyor belt machine and useful stuff goes to be remelted.

[Peter Hill]

You shouldn't be hearing them. They aren't allowed to use loud hailers or other noise pollution to tout for scrap any more.

[MrCheerful]

Will you nip out and tell them?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Not quite sure why decent cable ties ain't suitable anyway?

[Tim+]

But that?s yet another different scenario to the my question (that everyone seems to have forgotten), namely can a starter motor produce enough torque to damage a hydraulically locked engine?

Of course a running engine may have already sustained irreparable damage from ingesting water but I was curious as to whether attempting to turn an already locked engine over with the starter could actually bend conrods etc.

Tim