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EddieGTA · 04-12-2006

Originally Posted by Trailbraker

My local mechanic/garage owner said that cambelt failure was most common by far on the T-sparks, and the primary cause of it was that the tensioners on the T-sparks were crap!
Basically he said they were very poorly secured (I think he used the term "falling off") , and this was not an issue on the V6's.

In his experience at least V6 belt failure was very rare, although I certainly would not wait the 72000km myself.

(I don't have enough details myself to give a list)

Cheers,
TB

The first destroyed alfa engine I saw was a 2.0 TS at alfaaid, failed due to the plastic tensioner had disintegrated. I hade a 75 2.0 TS at the time and after that was glad it was the older 8v with a chain driven cam.

Personally my GTA has done about 30k and 3 years old now, intend on changing the belt next year and certainly wouldn't risk 5yrs 72k.

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EddieGTA Club Member Club Member Number: 91 Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Dartford, UK Posts: 4,790 Member car: 156 GTA	Re: gta belts etc Originally Posted by Trailbraker My local mechanic/garage owner said that cambelt failure was most common by far on the T-sparks, and the primary cause of it was that the tensioners on the T-sparks were crap! Basically he said they were very poorly secured (I think he used the term "falling off") , and this was not an issue on the V6's. In his experience at least V6 belt failure was very rare, although I certainly would not wait the 72000km myself. (I don't have enough details myself to give a list) Cheers, TB The first destroyed alfa engine I saw was a 2.0 TS at alfaaid, failed due to the plastic tensioner had disintegrated. I hade a 75 2.0 TS at the time and after that was glad it was the older 8v with a chain driven cam. Personally my GTA has done about 30k and 3 years old now, intend on changing the belt next year and certainly wouldn't risk 5yrs 72k.