Removed the rocker covers and the cam timings fine on all four cams so unless the belt slipped around the crank pulley the cam timings ok.
Thats a relief at least because it is four years since I changed it but there was a big chunk out of the back of the belt though,don't know what could have happened there.
So I will order a new timing belt tomorrow along with a fuel filter but I'll leave the lambda sensor for the timing being,I just saw the price of them
Alfaholik, thats a good point about draining the fuel,the reserve lights on anyway so I'll do that before I fit the new filter.Does petrol go off after a while?
B.N,How do you mean you you only get used to the intake runners after a couple of weeks?
Richard 111,another exxie owner
do you still have it?my x19 is keeping my alfa 75 company in my garage,funny you should mention that about the cam timing because mine wasn't running as I felt it should be and discovered the mark on the pulley was 2 or 3 teeth out from TDC,after I lined them up it ran much better but I never had the chance to try it on the road as mot had ran out.Looks like the last owner must have thought he had one of the bad pulleys.