2021 Ford EcoBlue wet timing belt replacement

[@kennedysgarage3281]

This vehicle has 156,000kms on the clock 👍

[@paulieworthington9482]

Thanks Peter, this was my car guys, decided to use Peter after watching his videos and copping straight away that when you ask for a job to be done, you know it's going to actually be done!! I don't trust main dealers who normally fob off big jobs to young inexperienced kids, and you never know is everything being done that should be done or that you have asked to be done, i asked peter to also look my car over and service the transmission, Peter noticed there was 2 bad tyres on the front worn from the inside which i could never see so he got them done for me the morning of collection along with tracking a free car wash lol and fortunately so because we went straight to England the next day for our holiday and she purred the whole way, auto transmission was alot smoother than before and tbh we got better mileage from everything being done, normally 850ish kms on a tank but we managed 1020kms this time round.. will be back soon for the brakes all round and will ring today to book in the work jeep 😊😊 highly recommend Peter!!

[@bastogne315]

Great to hear from the car's owners. Your wheels are famous now 😂

[@kennedysgarage3281]

Thank you so much Paul, I really appreciate your custom & trusting me with your car. Hopefully you had a lovely holiday, thanks again 🙏🙏

[@anisoaragirnet]

Hello, my dear Kennedy where can order these parts? I need them urgently. Thank you in advance for your assistance.

[@TeezerDriz]

Watching this timing belt job makes me happy to be driving my cam chain Yaris. Great video Peter, ideal for any diy ford fixer. I would be concerned if other mechanics don't change the oil pump belt, delighted that you changed it without hesitation.

[@kennedysgarage3281]

Isn’t it mad and that was the Ford dealership I was talking to 😬😬

[@crazy-diamond7683]

This the engine that put me off the 2.0lt focus - flaming wet belts. Great job as usual and everyday is a School day!

[@kennedysgarage3281]

Absolutely correct, not a day goes by that I don’t learn something. Cheers mate 🙏🙏

[@peterarries7879]

Got the same crank pulley removal tool, when I had a problem with a kuga timing belt crank seized, absolutely fantastic for the money 💰

[@kennedysgarage3281]

There are 2 threaded holes in it, I should have most likely used them in this case. It just didn’t want to move 🤷🏼‍♂️😂😂😂

[@peterarries7879]

@kennedysgarage3281 nothing on the petrol kuga i did Peter, but I've purchased a neilson harmonic balance puller and installer that has got the threaded part's

[@kennedysgarage3281]

@@peterarries7879 I will have to invest, cheers Peter 🙏🙏

[@martinfinbarscully4924]

Thank you, just a note on the amount of sealer, if too much is used it can get squeezed into the engine/sump space, eventually breaking off and blocking the oil strainer

[@kennedysgarage3281]

True and correct, I generally apply sealer with a normal silicone gun through a 2 or 3 mm hole. I also try to allow it fall from around 1 inch from the contact surface. This generally gives me a nice round application of sealer. Sometimes this doesn’t work out perfectly but does normally work out perfect. Cheers mate 🙏🙏

[@JattaVictor]

Mr peter you are a good teacher

[@kennedysgarage3281]

@@JattaVictor thank you Sir 🙏🙏

[@Bubi0]

Hello I drive S max 2019 190 hp Ecoblue is the procedure the same as in this video ? Does the starter motor also have to be locked on the right-hand side?

[@bastogne315]

Great show again Peter. Sometimes i find its cheaper to get a garage to do maintainence on the car than having to go a buy all the tools and accessories needed to do the job. Torx plus is a new one on me.😮😂

[@kennedysgarage3281]

I had them sitting around for a while but this is my first time encountering them. I really do think that they just try to complicate things by introducing this kind of stuff. What would have been wrong with a good old fashioned 21mm head bolt 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️ Anyway tell me you first name again as I simply cannot remember it, I don’t like not knowing & thank you for responding to some of the comments. They really were accurate 🙏🙏

[@tonyc2837]

Did you end up changing the pulley.

[@bastogne315]

​@@kennedysgarage3281Tony..😊👍

[@kennedysgarage3281]

@@tonyc2837 yes, I fitted a new pulley & show this and it’s part number near the video end 👍

[@jamesward5721]

Did the timing chain/sprockets on a Yamaha quad there day before yesterday Peter - it had been done before & the last lad had everything marked with tippex. Quad was running "Great" according to the owner, just preventive maintenance. Quads ain't my thing, but hey ho. I lined up all his tippex marks, assuming they were right (bike runs good, right?) whipped all off, fitted the new chain/sprocket blah blah, rotated the engine 3 or four turns by hand, all the tippex marks lined back up.. except as I rotated the engine (never worked on one of those before) I started noticing Yamaha had slightly different ideas about where stuff ought be than the last lad & tippex did... Hmm.. Took the lot off, stuck everything back to the "We R Yamaha" version going by the factory indicators as best I could - seemed to me the last lad was maybe a bit out, meh, whatever. Banged it all back together, fired it up - Minty - chucked it back at the owner. Owner rings me asking wtf I did to his quad? Heart sank as I thought it had blown up or some such. Nope. Turns out the yokes producing about twice the power it was & is running like a top - lads amazed.. Timings important... Highlight of the week here was the Astra diesel that came in monday for a clutch - owner had been quoted €1200 for a new one plus service.. chucked it at me instead. Clutch perfect, waterpump leaking like a sieve. Fitted a new waterpump, serviced it, gave it back. Ickle bill. Owner rang today saying cars running brilliant, thanks for that blah blah. Dunno how a dealer mixes up a leaky waterpump with a clutch, lol - maybe they got confused.. or they're a ride.. one of those.. :-) Great vid as always. Keep 'em coming. :-)

[@jamesward5721]

"Hint" on the Astra was the lady owner goes "I have to keep topping up the water. They said it's the clutch.." Yeah.. No. In her defence, she's not into cars & I doubt she knows what a clutch or a waterpump are. In their defence.... erm, nope, I got nothing. Then again, Electrician chucks in his Vito tuesday - DOE fail, other stuff plus tracking is out. He went to a tracking crowd first, they go "Your wishbone bushings are focked, we can't track it without fitting all new arms / bushings first"... Except the DOE fail sheet never mentioned bushings or arms, just tracking, as I pointed out. They'd have mentioned bushings.. Gave it to a pal who does tracking, he tracked it (no parts required) - I fixed the rest of the stuff, off it goes for re-test & passes flying colours. Spoofers Peter - spoofers abound. There's no end to it. I'm becoming cynical, lol.

[@kennedysgarage3281]

We get a bit grumpier as we get older James 😂😂 I’d see a lot of that kinda stuff going on, human error or just plain silly 🤷🏼‍♂️ A guy that works for me had no internet a technician came to fit a new router but still couldn’t get it working afterwards. So a higher technician came to sort it out, asked if anyone pressed the WiFi button since the router was fitted? He pressed it and hey voila 😂😂😂😂

[@jamesward5721]

@@kennedysgarage3281 Today confirmed my opinion on 2010, 2011, 2012 Ford Transits btw Peter - had a Pals in for rust repairs - wasn't a thing I could do for him, impossible - the steel Ford used those years turns to mush through & through. Not going to be accepting any more of those for repair - it isn't viable.

[@kennedysgarage3281]

@@jamesward5721 we sometimes have to say no and call it a day 💪💪

[@peterfox6256]

There are two 8mm bolt holes in the crank pulley which can be used to remove it but they can be tight !

[@kennedysgarage3281]

I actually saw that but hadn’t any thing to fit that and thought it would come off easier. Something learned every day 😬😬

[@etistours6650]

Hi. Great video. How many kms on the engine? Thx

[@bastogne315]

Its at start of vid. 150k i think.

[@eoghanhennessy443]

Peter have you come across the vaccum pump seizing up on this engine one caught me out last week 2022 transit 2.0 . Symptoms oil lights coming and hard brake pedal kinda wasnt too bad . After loada wrong turns we sused out the vaccum pump has a plastic rotor in it the that actually created the vaccum was made of plastic. It started breaking up . And blocked the oil gallery stoping oil following from the cam shaft . One to keep you on your toes . As these are also kniwn block strainer with bits of broken belt

[@kennedysgarage3281]

Ooohh, no I haven’t seen that before but is really good to know about. Aren’t these forums brilliant for this kind of information and education. Thank you Eoghan 🙏🙏

[@eoghanhennessy443]

​@@kennedysgarage3281peter i was under the impression the vaccum pump being plastic caused the issues. But talking to lads in ford they reckoned. Extremely fine fibres of the belt worked up passed the strainer into the vaccum pump

[@eoghanhennessy443]

​​@@kennedysgarage3281we stripped it down expecting see loose teeth in the dtrainer absolutely noting stopless . We fitted a new kit any ways . Oil light flashing sometimes. After 5 more minutes you could hear the vaccum pump starting to seize. It sounds like an abs pump coming in and out very strange. The port in the pump is extremely fine 😂. I see a market for greece nipple vaccum pumps for transit . Serving needed every 500 miles make a fortune from it 😂😂

[@kennedysgarage3281]

@@eoghanhennessy443 did replacing the vacuum pump resolve the issue??

[@eoghanhennessy443]

​Yes​ replacing the pump cured everything. Oil light was off afterwards .was coming on intermittent. . The wet belt had done 85000 kms and look perfect . Tiny fibres had blocked pump @@kennedysgarage3281

[@zvonko92]

Hello, I find it interesting that you (and some other wet belt replacement videos I watched) find the belt to actually be in good condition at around that mileage, when there is all this fuss about wetbelts. So I am starting to wonder are they really that sensitive in 2.0 ecoblue, or is it all because of the 1.0 ecoboost engines? Also I am currently in the process of importing Focus mk4 2.0 ecoblue manual (made in November 2019) from Germany to Croatia (unfortunately oil service was done only every 30k km) and it currently has 172k km, so should I really be THAT worried? I am actually considering delivering it straight to the Ford dealer, out of fear 😅

[@kennedysgarage3281]

@@zvonko92 sometimes it just isn’t worth taking the chance, it would be safer to replace it 🤔🤔🤔

[@zvonko92]

@@kennedysgarage3281 thank you for the reply, I know this the safest, but immediate 1k EUR bill is an eyesore, so I started questioning 🙈 anyways, I will receive the car this weekend and have it serviced first thing next week and will report back what the Ford dealer found inside. They told me they did not have any failures with Focuses (but they recommend replacement early at around 140k kilometers), only with some 2.0 ecoblue Transits from construction companies that trash them 24/7.

[@alikayhan9200]

Good job Kennedy

[@kennedysgarage3281]

@@alikayhan9200 thank you sir 🙏🙏

[@brianaugust1594]

Great Video, im confused though, the 2.7 and (Lincoln) 3.0 both have Wet timing belts, how about the 2.0 Ecoboost??

[@kennedysgarage3281]

I’m actually not sure about the 2.0 petrol eco boost. I haven’t ever worked on one. That day is surely only around the corner though 😬😬😬

[@damienkearns9922]

Peter admit it....Marvel is really the brains of the operation :P That was a very interesting one to see and I totally appreciate the 'weirdness' we wouldn't be at this craic if we weren't. I wonder who decides - oh yeah lets make a new head bolt just so that everyone has to buy a new set of sockets (Torx Plus - they can't even come up with new names now!!) One thing I just couldn't see was - when you were taking off the sump how did you support the engine? A great video with lots of learning for all! anda job very well done and a perfect motor - amazing how clean that engine is - credit to the owner.

[@richardsheil5289]

He moved the axle stand to the compressor towards the front of the engine

[@kennedysgarage3281]

I’ll have to employ Bastogne to manage my KZbin channel 😂😂😂 Great responses by the way 🙏🙏

[@willV6F1]

Great video Peter. My brother has a 2020 Transit. I presume it has the same engine as the Mondeo here??

[@-DC-]

Yes.

[@kennedysgarage3281]

Yes, the same EcoBlue engine in it 😉

[@GR-uy1hx]

I always enjoy your Vids.Cheers

[@kennedysgarage3281]

Cheers mate 🙏🙏

[@marekhuska8445]

how many miles did it have at the time of replacement? have you cleaned the oil pump strainer?

[@hannesvdmerwe3067]

What was the mileage on the Mondeo at the time of the belt replacement?

[@kennedysgarage3281]

@@hannesvdmerwe3067 156,915kms on the clock 😉😉

[@Bubi0]

I have S max 2019 at what kilometers should the belt be changed ?

[@kennedysgarage3281]

@@Bubi0 I’d advise around 60,000mls

[@castrolgtx5064]

Thanks for sharing 👌

[@kennedysgarage3281]

Welcome 😊

[@SandelMiron]

Km of this car? Thank you

[@kennedysgarage3281]

@@SandelMiron 156,915kms but I show this in the video

[@TimmmmmyD]

What a daft design. They may have well used a timing chain instead

[@kennedysgarage3281]

There is always some kinda silly reason for what they do 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️