Proof that yet again design engineers have no clue regarding maintenance/ repairs on most vehicles . Closest most get to getting their hands dirty is ink from a pen 😳. Excellent video 👍🏻😉👏👏👏👏

Who ever designed this engine needs ****ed and oh lets put the oil filter on it's side. These strainers get blocked on all wet belt motors, Ford really must do better.

I did 40 years in the motor trade, to me, a rubber based drive belt partially submerged in oil does not bode well from the word go!

The Old 2.5 di Transit what's easily cover half a million miles and some on the original clutch I used to work on these vans 30 years ago if you are careful driver they would last forever unlike today's buckets of crap 2.5 di best Transit diesel engine ever😅😅😮😮😢😢😊😊😊

Ford what a joke my 22 plate 2 years old with only 35000 clutch failed now i am told it won’t be under warranty yet they fail to understand 3 year manufacture warranty is still in place

Other than putting back the badly cracked serpentine belt it was a good instructional video

Highly recommend Ben for Wet Belt replacement, because he goes the extra mile ensuring the job is done properly including overnight curing of the seals before adding oil etc. Also fair value. Bearing in mind this is a once in 100,000 task I wanted it done properly. Thanks Ben.

Wet belts….simple question…WHY..????

Seems ford want these to fail, my focus 72reg was collected for its first service with 11,000 miles on clock, I put a mark on oil filter before hand and checked oil colour, it was returned with same filter and oil looked the same as before service, I took it back and confronted them about this, they tried to tell me it had been done so I produced photos of filter etc , they took it back in and changed them telling me the mechanic had forgotten to do the oil change,

Same with my golf, i think its come from under carpet/floor seal. I will try this solution. Many thanks

It's not a ford transit its a ford costapacket😢😢😢😢😢

A wet timing belt, running in hot oil, what could go wrong?

Why when you have gone to all that trouble to remove a stupid idea do you replace it with ANOTHER belt. There are chain conversions available.

Try to tight with torque

Best example of doing a wet belt i have seen Thank you

Ridiculous to think putting a rubber drive belt in oil would be a good idea !. Come on Ford, what were you thinking ?. The idea of a timing belt on the outside of the engine was to make it more easily serviceable than an internal chain. Internally lubricated chains usually last the life of the vehicle (BMW not included), rubber belts degrade over time, usually from dry rot breaking them down. Ford had the wisdom here to combine the very worst parts of both and figured it was a great idea !. I guess sales of replacement engines for these things are doing very good business for them 😂😂. Interesting how, in the States, they were forced, by a class action lawsuit, to recall these things, at huge cost to them, but, here in the U.K., business as usual and most warranty claims get refused if not serviced by a main dealer because, they say, “they probably didn’t use the correct spec. oil” !. How to ruin a brand and lose customers……, bravo Ford.

This looks like a yearly job to me along with the service and later MOT. Ford are killing off the customer base and EV sales are dying, not a lot left for them to manufacture except maybe bikes with oil in the tyres instead of air.

ford destroyed ford.no blaming anyone else.its ALL their own cost cutting that killed ANY hope of them surviving.let them have what they EARNED.GREED supplies its own endings.

Hopefully there will be a chain sprocket conversion kit available soon.

I personally believe this is a deliberate design fault.

Worst design ford has come up with and they have made some bad ones. Use the wrong specified oil on this engine and it eats the belt away, bye bye engine.

What a bl@@dy silly idea.I was working with cam belts in the 70s and 80s and they were a stupid idea then.Why did Ford think that a belt made of rubber would be ok running in oil,and to what advantage.Cam belts are unreliable at the best of times, particularly if they run over replacement times, plus you get no warning as you do with a noisy timing chain.

All that faf for a belt?

I wish I knew how to do all that. Very impressed. I see a lot of these vans for sale at what looks like the mileage just short of this work needing doing. If you didn’t know you could buy the van and find the engine wrecked soon after.

would luv too meet the cock womble who thought this was a good idea.

Do you tink upgrade timing belt will perform better , I bought brand new custom 2022 I have 30 000 km on the clock , shuld I change soon ? To avoid problems

I had this problem. The main cause was the rubber seal at the bottom of the door has a drain hole which was clogged causing the water to rise up and spilling out the speaker. If you have this issue ensure you check the seal.

What a sad shit of an engine design . The transit was fantastic van with a pinto engine in it. It didnt damage the engine if the belt snapped.and in 30 mins you could fit a new one. Definite backward step.with this crap. No insult to you by any means but Ford yes just twats.

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First, the filter is inserted into its seat, the spout should fit into the hole, and then the lid is screwed on.

stupid ford or what

Trying to do this on my parents car currently. 2016 and the sump looks so much worse in condition. It’s practically seized on and I can’t get it off at all. At a loss here because it needs to be done ASAP but a new sump is £200 from main dealer

Is this the same 2 L diesel engine as in the Transit L3H2?

Could you just put sealant around the speaker without removing the speaker?

This is very correct.Congratulation!

Can you reduce the video volume any more?

Great video

Why is the belt so much skinnier than the pulleys?

Was the crank gear still in time after it moved

Great Video, thanks! Is the removal of the oil pan standard or necessary to replace the timing belt or did you wisely removed it to clean up the oil pickup? Thanks in advance.

Very good video thanks

Why u tighten the cam sprockets with slag on the belt? Tighten the sprocket bolts is the last thing to do but first adjust the tention on the belt!

This sump oil like porn for mechanic 🤣I save friend car he have 1.2 pureshit technology because he someone called me and I give him advice similar clogs happen in him car.

To remove the oil pan you need a specific and unexpansive tool to avoid distortion...The old belt (with fabric on surface) whe see here is the first belt model who was replaced with a new model much more resistant (no fabric visible on surface) in april 2017, so i think this engine was built before...And what the hell did you not see that the acessory belt is completly craked!!!!!! The 3 belts from this engines MUST be always replaced in same time!!!

Whats the material used in the timing belt? It seems to have fibers

Wet Belts are a crime. I used to work at an Opel Dealership and like every 3rd car had trouble with them expanding. Good for the owners: there was a recall for them ;)

That serpentine belt was stuffed. It should have been replaced. I enjoyed the video.

The poor fellow will be busted again due to the cracked serpentine belt 😃

mannol engine oil you used .

I am sure this will be invaluable to anyone having to do this job for the first time. I am surprised you put the same fanbelt back on which looked to be in poor condition !!