Might have to find his contact details as could do with my belts doing soon
At the clutch end that's the balancing belt as well as he water pump isn't it? Was just thinking if you take the engine out to split the box anyway best to do it all while access is easy and the system drained?
What 5th gear ratios are you wanting to use John as I've plump for 2.2hdi 5speed cogs from a c5 but have yet to get the spare time to fit them. I'm hoping to drop a few 100rpm at 60mph which currently sits at just over 2000rpm in mine
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What 5th gear ratios are you wanting to use John as I've plump for 2.2hdi 5speed cogs from a c5 but have yet to get the spare time to fit them. I'm hoping to drop a few 100rpm at 60mph which currently sits at just over 2000rpm in mine
I find it interesting that the 2.5 and 2.1 use almost the same final gear ratio.
91 3.0 sei M. 4852 EXY Black
92 2.1 sed M. 5740 ECZ Sable Phenicien
92 3.0 V6-24. 5713 EXY Black
92 2.1 sd M. 5685 ENT Blue Sideral
Prev
90 2.1sd M. 5049 EJV Mandarin
92 2.1sd A. 5698 EJV Mandarin
94 2.1sd A. 6218 ERT Triton
91 2.0si M. 5187 EWT White
Balance belt is hidden under the main timing belt.
Rather odd double belt toothed on both sides so not easy or cheap to find.
It has an easy load life so I renew them at every second timing belt change (150k).
There is a lot that I will want to do to engines and chassis on the long life cars so engine out is my preference.
I intend to rebuild the lowest mileage engines I have for reuse.
Decided not to bid for the NOS factory engine that was offered on ebay some years ago.
Last I heard it was sitting on a pallet in Scotland and due to go in a 73k black estate.
On gears I am aiming somewhere between 10% and 20% stretch in gear ratios.
Changing the main drive ratio may be the easiest option rather than individual gears.
Also have a ML6 box that may figure in the trial changes.
As Dieselman notes it seems rather odd that the 2.5, the V6 manual and the 2.1 all use similar ratio boxes.
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