Familiar with the problems associated with torque stab loads on 16 valve diesel engines using belt camshaft drive, but unfamiliar with the exact camshaft drive architecture for the FL2, I was intrigued to note the details in the in drawing on page 2 of Alex Pescaru's post:

Exhaust Camshaft Breakdown. - http://www.freel2.com/forum/post158505.html#158505

The line drawing for the exhaust camshaft clearly shows that both camshafts must initially be chain driven. Does anyone have a drawing or photograph of the camshaft drive layout to the crank for me to study, and perhaps also the belts width, overall thickness and tooth depth.

Engine manufacturers have moved away from belts by and large as 16 valve engines replaced eight valve types. Reliability became an issue as the resulting drive train stab loads increased, and belt drive mechanical complexity increased.

Regards, Toadshall

The exhaust camshaft is driven by the cam belt and from there, through chain, the intake camshaft is driven.
Here it's below:

Alex,

Thank you.

I can see that this simpler layout reduces the complexity of belt wrap and its associated extra loads.

Kind regards, Toadshall

OK so the belt needs changing every 150K miles.
How often does the chain and sprockets need changing? Tangiers Orange - gone, missing her
Replaced by Ewok what a mistake - now a happy Disco Sport owner

They are endless, timeless, never-ending...

Seriously now, the manual doesn't mentions anything about them...
So we don't have any other option than to use technical common sense.

wow, that is actually a pretty cool design.

Andy131 wrote:

OK so the belt needs changing every 150K miles.
How often does the chain and sprockets need changing?