Spent this afternoon changing the cambelt on my estate.

Finding all but one of the mounting bobbins for the multi-rams and SAI were broken was only the start.
Some butcher has pulled the cabletidy out of the belt cover, and broken both; the cambelt cover is now almost in 3 pieces, so I'm going to have get a replacement at some point.

Taking the cover off revealed Tippex marks on all the pulleys, and the tensioner marks were nowhere near each other, so I expected the timing to be out. Using the locking set soon proved it, all four cams were a whole tooth out!

After lunch, I put it all back together, struggling with the marks on the belt, and on the fourth attempt, got it all timed correctly.

Reassembled all the front bits, made some spacers to replace the bobbins, and it started first time. Left it idling while I tidied up and topped it with coolant. It now idles smoothly, unlike before when it hunted by about 250RPM, so that's a success.

After running it around the block, I found that there was a lot of slack in the throttle pedal; fitting the clip that was still stuck to magnetic tray sorted that, but not the water leak from the O/S radiator hose.

It's now dark, and the engine's hot so I'll be taking the Avenger to work tomorrow, and hoping for a quiet day so I can fix it completely.

I'm going for a beer!

Fixed the coolant leak by replacing the stupid spring clamp on the hose with a proper Jubilee one.
Then when I drove it I found the EML on. My scantool pointed at a 'manifold valve', and opening the bonnet and looking at the multi ram I found that I'd not plugged the connector in!
Did that and the light went out, and it goes really well now, it was effortless before, but now has some real punch.

I'm very pleased with the whole job!

Yes, a '72 1500 auto. Trying to get it ready for paint, and then it will be getting an XE and carlton gearbox to pep it up a bit.