Citroen XM Forum

Sorry Paul, had to dash out to the train station!!

Forum was playing silly buggers too earlier on, taking forever to upload my reply.

Anyway, yeah not going to Wetherby. wanted to, but the weather and jobs to do on the car for the looming MOT, got in the way. Shame cos I was looking forward to the Sunday with the Renault and Peugeot clubs attending.

talking of Peugeots....saw a mint early 205 GTI this morning. The driver had a good look at the XM!!!

Hi Paul, haven't been on here for a while. ..great news on the window!..im not going to Wetherby either. Currently sat in Manchester airport waiting for my brother and sister in law coming over from Florida. Looks like a nice dry day today too. I'm feeling your comment on not having any time ; )

Had a bit more time today, however, not having any anti rust treatment stuff left, couldn't do any more weld prepping...

So, instead rather then waste time, I decided to tackle the Cam belt and pump job.

After getting the car in position on a wheel rim (that double up as axle stands) I noticed the following in the arch area..



Water!!! Comming out of the seal joint... NO Its not LHM, that brake pipe goes up the other side, the opposing side of the structure is DRY! So, water being held, which having the car leaning in favour of the passenger side caused this water to seep out..

Any ideas??

Anyway...

Access ready.


Pinned Ready for belt off...






Crank is also pinned behind the starter...

However, If you are dooing a broken belt job on these, dont make the mistake I did some years ago,



Looking above, the crank key DOES NOT line up with the Gap in the protruding upper part which I thought it did, however this TDC set clearly shows it doesn't..




So, all set to TDC, I just need to remember how to set the belt tensioner and get the belt off and pump swapped...

Oh, also, would that be the Crank Seal on its way out allowing that oil to spread about?
Its NOT the cam seal, its bone dry up there..

In your engine mount pic you can see a hole. Stick an Allen Key in there, loosen it, and then stick a deep 10mm socket in there, and turn clockwise to compress the spring. I'm almost sure thats how to do it.

robert_e_smart wrote:In your engine mount pic you can see a hole. Stick an Allen Key in there, loosen it, and then stick a deep 10mm socket in there, and turn clockwise to compress the spring. I'm almost sure thats how to do it.

+1.

+2

The Haynes BoL actually describes the cambelt tensioner job pretty well.

Beware of the Allen bolt head being mangled from other's careless past attempts. I had one bad on a 2.1TD Xantia and needed to get a reverse flute socket onto it to get it loose.

Still, it's all coming along nicely Paul

Well, did a TINY bit more today... as there was FAR to much wind about to weld, the gas would never get to the weld...

So, did a bit more in the cam belt area..

Got the belt off then proceeded to remove the water pump, when TWO bolt heads decided to shear off...

Crap, to add to that, as 2.1 owners might know, the block obscures the upper part of the pump, so, out with the drill, and a bit of messing later got the pump off the studs, and found luckilly there was enough stud to remove them with the mole grips..

So, bit of sealent on both sides of the paper gasket and on she went.



So then the next bit, remove the bottom sprocket to tackle the oil seal..

It was tight, but came away, so now im left with the above, awaiting oil seal.

So, what else.. ah, a bit of Rust Tackling.. removed the loose rust, and applied some KuRust.







Note the subframe colour difference between the above treated frame, and below, un treated.

Looks like you're getting on well again Paul, and so pleased you got some glass! Sad to say I'm not going to be able to buy it in the end now; I needed a faster solution and ended up with a W124 diesel estate that was too good to pass on...

Jealous.. i soooooo love the w123 merc.. even more so in Traveller guise.. nice one!

Remember me if and when you come to sell on..

I will but it's a W124!