Pug 1.1 cambelt change costs?????

O.K. it seems exceedingly sensible to change the cambelt on this little Pug
that I have taken over to look after. It seems not to have been done. It
will be 8 at the end of August. It has not been driven for 2.5 years.
So.....
what'll it cost for the cambelt to be changed folks???? Any ideas - so I can
start looking for the piggy bank!!!!

 

Very simple engine design - I'd expect my local guy to charge around
£100 for a belt change and oil / filter change.

 

45 minutes labour plus the price of the belt. On my Sierra it used to be £51
inc VAT. Half as much again on a Peugeot I would say.

 

If the poster is all that skint, I usually find selling a child - or
stealing a child then selling it (and feigning denial when the law appears)
usually works for me; but only with peugeots. Shame.

 

This is not necessarily sensible advice. I could change a Peugeot cambelt
myself if I had a workshop manual, possibly a special tool or two, and a
morning in which to do it but it would make more sense to volunteer for some
overtime at work and use my earnings to pay a far more experienced person to
do it for me.

 

Apparently it needs some locking pins and a tensioning tool plus a
1.5kg weight to hang off aforementioned tool.

Other than that, there's nothing overly complicated.

 

Why?

It's only a really, really basic SOHC 8v lump.

Access may be a bit tight, but it's nothing that should scare a home
mechanic.

I've only ever done one belt change myself - on a Cinq. Sporting. In
theory, a piss easy job, but it was bloody tight against the inner arch.
Still, even though it was my first belt and water pump change, it only
took me 3 hours. And that was including several cups of tea and 10 fags
whilst checking everything several times before managing to find the
courage to fire it up.....

 

Do it your self,

 

Should be no more than £100.00 inc vat and labour
Chris Addlestone Surrey

 

Yes, but the thing is that I can sit on my arse listening to my favourite
CD for a couple of hours watching beautiful scenery roll by and earn enough
to pay an oily cancer-handed mechanic to change my cambelt, and then some.

So why would I do it myself?

 

Because it'll only take a couple of hours to do at worst and your hourly
rate is less than the hourly rate of the mechanic you pay to do the job.

 

As i know there is no special tools needed, just a lot of cups of tea.
chris Addlestone Surrey

 

Its not deisel is it ? so what do u need the locking pins,if u take
your time removeing everything you will have no problem putting it back
in the same place.
so good luck give it a go.yes it is a bit tight in the wheel arch but i
can do it from top and side,
Good Luck from Chris Addlestone Surrey

 

Yeah - depends entirely on the car.

Have no idea about Peugeots but a Fiat 131 cambelt I did do and it wasn't
hard. Daewoo Lanos 1.6 DOHC - forget it, I'll leave the cursing to the
mechanic (and he will on that car).

Cheers

Tim

 

TO lock the crank and camshaft pulleys in place.

And you need to set the right tension on the belt.

 

I don't get an hourly rate, I get a daily rate. So I can work 4 hours on a
saturday morning and earn £107.50, as I did yesterday (over half of this
"work" consisted of sitting on a cross-channel ferry reading a newspaper) I
would sooner do this and leave the dirty work to someone whose living
depends on it.

 

And I got tomorrow cancelled as my load was moved to Tuesday. As I was
booked for the whole week, I can bill £80 for tomorrow as I sit at
home.

 

What you on? if you do these every day of the week like i do you dont
need any of those tools.

 

I bet you change belts on Zetecs without fitting a pulley kit as well.

 

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I've often wondered how necessary they are. If you mark the pulleys so
you get their relative positions right, what need for pins?