Great job Baz, you're definitely the man I would entrust to carry out a wet belt replacement. What a stupid design though.....a rubber belt running in engine oil!! Plus how much has to be removed to gain access to the belt.......especially for a 3 cylinder 1.0 litre engine!!! Give me a zetec engine any day!! Keep up the great work Baz.

Decent upgrade, that new camera. Top work as always. It seems crazy that a service item (that wet belt) requires such a colossal amount of work to be changed over.

Great job Baz and awesome camera work.Its a gem.

Thank you mate much appreciated 👍

Have one of these engines in our Ford Focus wont be getting another Ford when we replace it, always a ticking time bomb.

Very good job indeed 👏 👍 👌 knowledge is wisdom 👏 🙌 👍 👌 🙏

Great video Baz, I do the Vauxhall/peugeot wet belts and have have now made sure that all my timing tools are tight with bolts 👍🤙

Great job mate 👏 you da Man 👌

Well done to you sir ! We wil try and get over there in the near future and book our little fiesta for the same procedure! Your vids are a gem and it deff shows what experience looks like and why this is done with care and following all the steps !

Thanks, my usual repair garage would not touch this job, nor would any other local guys, so I went to the main dealers. They did the job including water pump etc for £1200, having seen the work involved i am OK with the final cost which had 10 hours of labour.

Belt was obviously designed to last the life of the car, Well until the real world intervened !

Another brilliant video

Ford should be taken to court over the design of these money pit engines.

Great job as usual, excellent camera 👍

By far one of the best channels on yt can't believe it only has 57k subs

Lanch have you in their paw after the show... 😊All joking aside great vids, your very calm and relaxed while doing them.👍

I was a Ford tech for 13 years, and I have nothing but good things to say about these engine. We rarely seen any giving trouble.

Great blog and you smashed it 💪🇬🇧

Great video. I had the job done when my Focus hit 10 years old (May 2022) only the Main dealer would do the job. First time I've every driven a vehicle that was going okay and paid £1,600+ for a repair! Of course it is a 'dockyard' job and you're not sitting behind a ticking timebomb wondering when it might break by having it done. It is something folk who buy used ones need to factor in.

Wow that's a simple job, remember how difficult the old pinto timing belt was

If cars no longer come into the garage that often, you design the engine in such a way that major repairs are planned, and when problems arise, bury your head in the sand and blame everything else 👍good work Ford ! for me never a Ford again 👎

good camera very good vid

The first thing I would do is get a cam chain conversion done! You don’t immerse a belt into oil, it’s asking for trouble!!

My niece had problems with her focus ecoboost engine,she spent over £3500 on a exchange engine,turbo various sensors,it never ran right and she ended up selling it to the garage. They drive ok but they are not good engines .

MADNESS! Who 'designs' these engines'???

I bought a ecosport 1 litre auto for the mrs last year with 15k on the clock 68 plate late 2018, so nice to drive, now has 20k on the clock but will service it myself using Westway oils which are very good (no I don’t work for them) kind regards to you Baz and everyone out there Mark from Billericay

I really wish we could get some empirical , rather than anecdotal, evidence on the Ecoboost. Just to see whether a lot of these Ecoboosts going pop, outside of the early recall related issues, are bad design, bad maintenance or maybe both.

You are a good engineer but get some racking to put things on please. The floor is for feet and dirt. Plus things on the floor are great trip hazards. Cheers.

Whilst there I would also have you change the seal on the timing belt cover. 👍

Well…..looks like I’m buying a new camera now, I want to be able to zoom in too 😂

We should appreciate real mechanics more.Treat them like engineers which they in reality are.How many models of cars and every model other belt system.If you think this one is complicated,look at videos of some VW models.A near impossible job for diy like me.Great camera job and how many hours of editing?

That camera is clear as day!

Have you changed a belt on a 1.0 turbo civic ? What do you think of the Honda 1.0l engines?

An Ecoboost wet belt looks like less ball ache than an Astra timing chain tho.

I have a 2013 fiesta ecoboost and it’s claimed to of had the belt and water pump done by a Ford specialist and it rattles only when it gets hot and the emissions are out on the mot

Hey Baz, informative video as usual. Thanks. A question though, is it worth changing the lube pump belt and water pump at the same time as this job?

What was the condition of oil pump? Full of debris or? Looking clean

I’ve been a diesel mechanic for 43 years and I hate these wet belt id sooner extract m9r injectors than ford shit

Zoooooommm 🤙🤙

There appears to be a problem in the industry and with the car buying public at large in relation to the concept of preventative maintenance, (not at this garage 🤙). I feel too many years of highly reliable cars and have brought the industry and the car buying public back into reality very quickly with components failing regularly. This is because of the change in technology chosen by; or forced on manufacturers, eg, timing chains, wet belts, 3 cylinder engines and emission related technology which the car buying public were not openly told about or how to care for these fickle technologies. This attitude of lethargy towards preventative maintenance might go some way to explain why so many are not checking brake fluid and why the car buying public don’t seal to care about or know about brake fluid and it’s hydroscopic properties

not like this happen in service where i was before - no possible to speak and disturb the mechanic - he must work quickly to grow the company i was concern to destroy all my cable/hose clip terifiant experience

Zero road tax and cheap parts pays for the belt change and you'll still be the owner of a great fun car probably worth the same as you paid for it many years ago. You could buy an electric car for £30k plus which will be worthless in 4 years cos it needs batteries replaced.

I keep having seized bolts on the air conditioning compressor I’ve had to remove the sump with a/c compressor still bolted to sump on a couple which makes it very difficult to refit as it’s so heavy

Love your videos but the old camera was substantially better , Sharper , more vivid colours and stable . Watch any of the previous videos on a medium size monitor its very obvious . When you pan or move it lags behind terribly . Name the original one please .

Hi baz you got any videos on how to bleed brakes drums on the back of my fiesta St line. Thank you

Bring back pushrods!! If its a great engine, why do some fail when perfectly serviced at a main ford dealer? Something else is going on here starting the self destruction process. Belt quality, vibration, can gear tolerance. It's not just about oil. It is a crap engine, if only for the 'difficulty' of belt inspection and bankruptcy level expense of belt replacement. How many otherwise good cars have been scrapped over this issue?? A lot! Insane design.

You don't need the torque multi plyer ft does the same thing

Hi Baz , if the cam belt is in one piece, can the oil pump belt be replaced without dropping the sump?..

9:00 😂😂😂

what brand/kit is the torque multiplier baz?

50,000 miles (80,000km) is a very short belt change interval for such a huge PIA job, that alone is a perfect reason NOT to buy something with this engine. Alldata service info states 150,000 mile change interval, why so soon?

Won’t touch(buy) a wet belt car…..design is criminal…..

So my question for you barry is. Are the ford wetbelt engines better than the peuegeot citroen wet belt engines.

So how much is it?

Just wondering why disconnect the coils rather then use flood mode to build oil pressure?

Same old story, people skip services, don't keeping up on basic maintenance, and engines get a bad name. These same people would destroy a ferrari, and say it's the car's fault.

Anybody know how nuch it costs for Baz to do this job

How much do you charge for that?

Do you say reciprocal instead of receptacle?

Ford…….the last Ford I’d driven was in 1996!

Did you replace the little round / oval type of seal in the timing casing?

How much do you charge baz?

These are related to the peugeot 1.2 thp engines but on the peugeot i didnt have to remove the timing cover, just an inspection cover and the floating crank pulley. The belt can be fed down from the top.

Do you need the torque multiplier for these or not

So much bad publicity these engines. On my third now , always been reliable for me.

Cannot agree with you. Has there every been a worse Ford Engine ?.

As a ex mechanic of 29 years,now beef farmer,,come on,,,its A FORD,,,Fix or Repair Daily,,they are crap,,,Toyota or Honda only...Anything else is just inadequate..

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If *you’re shocked. Not your. Basic grammar.

You are saying not to use anything abrasive on the sump and timing cover when you are cleaning it. There is nothing more abrasive than a wire brush wheel in a drill? I dont get that. Or was it a wire wool wheel, if so then i understand that. Maybe i miss understood?