lol ^^^ yeah that's Import Car Parts!

 

Ive ordered one from them should get it tommorow or Saturday hopefully

 

UPDATE fitted the new Camshaft position sensor today and charged the battery overnight....................and its still the same

I am demented! Any fresh ideas greatly appreciated.

 

The AA have been at it for an hour and cant get it going either,there is no spark at all caused by the Camshaft position sensor he thinks.The guy thought if he could reset the fault code it may go away because of the new sensor,how would i do that?

 

Sorry to hear that - damn!

If you're not getting spark, then that would now indicate crank sensor not working!

When you changed the batt, presumably it was swapped quickly? If yes, then you can either reset the ECU by disconnecting batt. for 1/2h or so... or do it correctly using the connectors under steering column (see Scoobypedia's ECU section for the procedure...)

Try the ECU reset first, before condemning anything else...

 

I am still getting the fault code for the cam sensor and not the crank one though?

I will try and reset the ECU first

 

Im presuming that due to having 2 heads, theres is 2 cam sensors? Have u changed the right side?

 

No djandyg, just one cam sensor... Cited on top of the block, over the passenger side top camshaft.

The crank sensor is cited centrally on the top of the block, obviously inline with the crank.

 

Ah right thanks didnt know that

 

I guess just as a double check it would be worth taking the n/s cam cover off(very easy to do) Just to confirm the cam is going round when your cranking ,as if its not there wont be a signal from the sensor

 

Good positive I.D. tip!

 

UPDATE I dont know why i didnt check it but the timing belt has snapped i just hope it hasnt done any other damage

I was told it had been changed 15000 miles ago

 

Cripes! Roughly what rpm do you reckon you were doing when you first heard the noise and shut the engine off?

You have been very unlucky - Subaru belts NOT got a rep for snapping.

 

I reckon i was doing about 3000 rpm at the time i wasnt going hard at all and stopped straight away

 

You could be okay. It happened to my mate in his '87 Cavalier SRi lol 2 decades ago. No damage to valves or pistons occurred.

 

Fingers crossed eh,i cant beleive i never checked it.

 

I think it's because you just don't think to! It never enters head (too obvious???)

 

Probably

 

your pi*sed off YOU never checked it? id be more pi*sed off the fact your paying an AA membership??!! and it never crossed his mind to have a quick butchers!

hope you get it sorted mate, whats the tensionner like etc is it literally the belt thats failed?

 

^^^ Good point.

 

i hate to be a party pooper but i'd say it'll of bent a good few valves? especially with you cranking it over. usually the case mate,, my mates cam belt snapped on his corsa, turned it twice for around 5 secs,, turned out it had bent 12 of 16 valves

sorry for the news mate i really hope you fall lucky, my bottom end let go on christmas day on my v3 sti if its any conselation

fingers crossed for ya

 

could you not tell the car sounded different when you were spining it over ????

also phone the aa and get that patrol guy back and poke him in the eye with a stick , a fu@@ing big stick .

 

totally agree!

 

thanks for the comments lads,as for the AA guy i could not agree more what a ****!

 

I cant believe how you didnt realise the belt was broken when turning it over. They sound totally diffrent and it turns so freely, but hey ye live and learn, you'll know what it sounds like if it happens again..

 

I couldnt tell the difference with the sound but i would now if it happened again thats for sure