Camblet Length

[Grant]

Do any of you lovely people know if the cambelt is the same length from 1.8 - GTi - XSI?

Muchos Gracias

[Niall]

No it's not. It is from the gti to xsi though.

[Grant]

And the one you gave me was gti yes?

[Niall]

It was

[Midnightclub]

I thought there was 2 types for the GTi though? 167 and 168 tooth or something along those lines?

[Matt]

There is two types, depends on what rollers are made of, plastic or metal

[Grant]

There is two types, depends on what rollers are made of, plastic or metal

It really comes down to that?

[Matt]

Yep. I asked Niall about it before. I couldn't make any sense of it

[Niall]

I think it's the plastic one which the idler has a slightly bigger diameter hence the need for a longer belt

[Grant]

Feck it, Ill buy a kit in a month or so lol. Not worth ruining the engine...

[Matt]

Check the one that's on there, should say on the belt if its 136 tooth

[luke306rallye]

The 136 kit is the better type.

[bitwrx]

136 tooth for the smaller metal only manually set tensioner.
137 for the larger plastic/metal auto-tensioner.

A lot of people say 136 is the better option because it's metal.
I went for the 137 as it has an auto tensionerit. Just bang an allen key in, turn it round till the marks align, and tighten up (still not easy with the amount of space available though!).

I think the 137 was fitted to later vehicles. Not sure when the changeover was though.

[miles]

137 was generally fitted to Xsara's from around 2000 or Phase 2, 306's unless very late only had the 136 type, Even the 136 belts come with plastic idler's now unless you find some old stock