Replacing chain, belt and mackerel

[IvanS.]

First, hi to all members of this site, since i register three hours ago, and I'm happy that I found site with owners of good-rolling Volvo cars. I should get my fathers Volvo 340 GL in several months ( as soon as i pass his driving tests ), and I'm looking forward to that.

Well here's my first question...

Since it's not written in owners manual, i do not know when to change chain, belt and mackerel ?
It'll soon get to 100.000 km(s) and i think it's time to change something of those above...

Thanks everyone

[bogbasic]

Hello, if its a 1.4, the chain never needs changing but a 1.7 should have the cam belt changed after that sort of mileage. It would also be worth changing the fan belt. I am confused by the mackeral - in English, that is a fish. Have fun.

[IvanS.]

Hello, if its a 1.4, the chain never needs changing but a 1.7 should have the cam belt changed after that sort of mileage. It would also be worth changing the fan belt. I am confused by the mackeral - in English, that is a fish. Have fun.

Thank You, I (will) have Volvo 1.4 340 GL just the matter of time...
Sorry for misunderstanding with ( mackerel - word - i got this translation from my language to English...sorry again ). I meant sprocket-wheel ..when to change that ?

Thanks again

[A M R]

lol how did you get sprocket wheel and mackerel mixed up?

do you mean tensioner by any chance?

dont know much about these cars so cant help you there im afraid...

[Vart]

st johns wood is the only underground station that hasn't got any common letters with mackerel. so there.

[pettaw]

Hiya and welcome.

There's no service interval for timing chain, tensioner and sprockets for these.

If the oil has been kept clean they shouldn't wear out at all. Something else will break first If the chain starts rattling or getting noisy, then you might think about it, but if the car has been looked after it shouldn't be a problem.

[IvanS.]

My English is good, but i have a lack of words for car parts (know only basic stuff...some of engine, but tensioner never crossed my mind....
until now.....
I do not have same dictionary to back me up with words, so i searched for some online translations.....they messed me ( and this conversation ) up...
OK now I'm really shame on myself...( after this kind of conversation I'm REALY thinking of buying it )

I'm really sorry for this.....

To pettaw:
Chain has been cleaned from time to time, but Volvo was in garage for five years ( from 1991-1996-7 ) and after that it had repairs on engine and some other parts.....
After that it had services regularly....i guess chain doesn't need changing.
I'm in two minds of changing tensioner and sprockets, but if there's no time interval for changing those parts, i could change them later...

Do not mention that something will break first.....here is extremely expensive to get original parts not mentioning the used ones...

To Vart:
I'll keep that in mind...Thanks



To A M R:

Ask online translation..... not my fault.

To bogbasic:
Thanks for the data, i'll see what needs changing.

Thanks all for helping me ( and correcting online translation words ).
Cheers

[redline]

this is a mackeral





and this is a sprocket



make sure you get them the right way round or you will either have

A) a very smelly badly running engine or

B) something a bit hard to chew on your plate lol

welcome to the forum !!!!!

[IvanS.]

Hahahahaha....

Keep your volvo sprocket-fish-free...

[Chris_C]

Hey, don't worry about your English, I'm from England and useless at it

I drove through your town last September, was a very mad place As Mick (redline) says, Welcome!

[antiekeradio]

only service to the chain ever is needed when the tensioner gets worn out. this leads to the chain, touching the casing (housing) or cover plate.

this produces a 'rattling' noise.

that the chain might break, have never even heard of it happening
not even on engines with more than 400.000 km on it!!

so.. no rattling noises = no worry for the rest of its life.

[IvanS.]

To Chris_C:

Tell me about it....I live here... It's truth that smallest cities have biggest traffic...
Sometimes you just freak out trying to get to nearest junction to get out of traffic...

To antiekeradio :
No rattling sound.....yet...but I'll keep that in mind.

As I can see New members have to show some pics of their Volvo in general discussion forum...Well now it's raining and I'll take some as soon as i can.

Thanks for welcome...nice to be here.

[d3k4y0]

That's a fantastic translation error, I love it!

It's testement to this forum that people where more amused by it than deliberately rude, I went onto a certain foriegn language website not a million miles away from here when my father and I where going to catalan to watch some rugby.
My french reading is fair but writing is pretty poor, I had the basic gist of what I wanted to say and tweaked it in babelfish to get it gramatically correct. the result was that when I asked if anybody was local to where we were staying, and fancied coming to a rugby league match, match came across as "allumette" which means match, but the kind you strike, not the kind you play! The others on the forum understood what i had said but decided to be very rude and... well, French about it so I never ended up meeting any of them and probably had a better time for it!
I did however go back and said we'd had a great time, and linked them to the local news articles and pictures of our very own Agincourt!

On a related note, I love "Engrish", where something has been translated badly from Japanese into English by somebody who clearly can't speak either, the results are always fantastic!

[IvanS.]

Uf......nice to know that online-translation services I use, didn't translate that badly ( only hit some kind of fish instead of sprocket )....

That's a quite funny japanese-English translation...You might die following the instructions