Suzuki Club UK

Had my sj413 for 16 years ..love it to bits......very reliable unlike my friends Landrover....
91 thousand miles.....no smoke change the oil/filter every 3 thousand mile ...cambelt every 5 thousand miles....you either love them or hate them....
Jim

Thats a nice looking motor and un-molested as well,just one question why do you change the cambelt every 5 thousand miles as they should last much longer than that ?? i accept that its cheaper in theory to replace the belt rather than a expensive engine rebuild.Or prehaps i am missing something.

Nice SJ and welcome to Suzuki club UK.

Glad to hear it's so well looked after but yes changing the Cambelt every 5thousand miles is a bit of a waste of money really when you could easily leave it 5x that long, the service manual just says to inspect every 24000. especially if it doesn't go offroad much. The engines are a none interference design so even if the Cambelt did break it would not do any damage.

Hi looks like a good motor

Yes cambelt change is a bit early i guess..was just worried about it breaking prematurely ..
I read sometime ago that if it happens on this vehicle the pistons get friendly with the valves
perhaps thats not right ???????

Not on these engines no, being none interference, the valves don't open down into the cylinder as far so even with open valves, if the piston came right up they would not make contact.

Okay thanks for the info on my sj413 samuri

Hi and welcome to SCUK. Tidy looking tin top that.

Just so you know it looks like a 413 and not a Sammy from those pics.

Welcome to the club