Alecci
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Greetings to the board,
Time has come to change the cam/timing belt on my 3200 GT. Car has done about 15,000 kms (~9.5K miles) since last change, but it occurred six years ago so it may be time nonetheless.
Due to the fact that we have only two certified Maserati workshops in the country (both some 350 kms from where I live) and that they charge about £2,100 for the change, I would like to use an indie instead. The problem is that we have no established Maserati indies in Sweden that I'm aware of, so I went to a workshop that has carried out lots of work on my more "exotic" (and standard) cars in the past.
They said they could do it if I could supply them with a "locking kit" for the operation. I'm not familiar with the proper term in English, but apparently it's a few tools that allows you to lock the position of camshafts and crankshaft during the belt replacement process. I would like to know if anyone on here could tell me where to source such tools (and any other specific tools needed for the operation) and an approximate price? Or, better yet, if you could use such tools from another more standard car model?
As always, any assistance would be most appreciated!
Time has come to change the cam/timing belt on my 3200 GT. Car has done about 15,000 kms (~9.5K miles) since last change, but it occurred six years ago so it may be time nonetheless.
Due to the fact that we have only two certified Maserati workshops in the country (both some 350 kms from where I live) and that they charge about £2,100 for the change, I would like to use an indie instead. The problem is that we have no established Maserati indies in Sweden that I'm aware of, so I went to a workshop that has carried out lots of work on my more "exotic" (and standard) cars in the past.
They said they could do it if I could supply them with a "locking kit" for the operation. I'm not familiar with the proper term in English, but apparently it's a few tools that allows you to lock the position of camshafts and crankshaft during the belt replacement process. I would like to know if anyone on here could tell me where to source such tools (and any other specific tools needed for the operation) and an approximate price? Or, better yet, if you could use such tools from another more standard car model?
As always, any assistance would be most appreciated!