SpoolinGSX
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- Nov 4, 2002
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Bay Area,
California
Basically my tranny got trashed 3 months ago when I hit a small boulder on this backroad after it had washed down from a rockface during the rain. Two weeks ago I got my new tranny in and spent last week installing it.
During the install when we were putting the flywheel in, I had my friend hold the crank still with a breaker bar in the pulley. The pulley moved back and forward a bit, obviously not a good thing. I didn't think that much of it until I started the car up after I was done.
The car sounded really loud and rough. It was pretty bad ass, like a muscle car. I assumed some of the problem was due to the fact that the tank of gas had been sitting in the car for 3 months. Then I discovered, quite easily, that I hadn't torqued the downpipe nuts. After tightening them, the car sounded a lot more like the Apexi N1 I was used to. The only issue was, that whenever I cranked over the motor when started, it was a lot louder than usual, as well as more...metallic I guess. I wasn't too worried because the sound was definitely coming from the starter, not the valves or something.
I come out the next morning to take the car to the gas station to give it some nice California 91 pisswater. Started up with same loud cranking as before. Backed out and started driving down the street. Every time I would push the clutch in, the car would rev...oh no! The idle was also quite high like 1300-1700 rpm. I thought that maybe the car was having some issues with the gas, as a quick look at the A/F gauge showed that it was not in closed loop and that it was running quite rich.
On my way to the gas station the car seemed perfectly fine, except for the fact that I still needed to bleed the clutch some more and that the idle issue was still happening. Pull up in the left turn lane to make a U-turn into the gas station. Idling...then all of the sudden the car dies. Doesn't make any noises or anything. Cranking...cranking...nothing. It won't start. Just making that annoying starting noise. It was turning over, had enough battery power, didn't want to start though.
Called the tow truck and we pushed it into the gas station. The mechanic there told me to crank it. As soon as I did he motioned for me to stop. He said I wasn't getting any compression, and that my timing belt must have skipped. He had me take off the timing belt cover and crank it over until the cams lined up. Then he looked down at the crank pulley and said it was off.
So I tow it home, start taking apart the pulleys to get the timing belt to check for myself. But as far as I can tell, all the marks are lined up. I have some pictures attached to show you.
Sorry this was so long, but I really need my car running. Any ideas as to what is wrong? I was planning on doing a compression and leak down test. Any other tests to perform?
During the install when we were putting the flywheel in, I had my friend hold the crank still with a breaker bar in the pulley. The pulley moved back and forward a bit, obviously not a good thing. I didn't think that much of it until I started the car up after I was done.
The car sounded really loud and rough. It was pretty bad ass, like a muscle car. I assumed some of the problem was due to the fact that the tank of gas had been sitting in the car for 3 months. Then I discovered, quite easily, that I hadn't torqued the downpipe nuts. After tightening them, the car sounded a lot more like the Apexi N1 I was used to. The only issue was, that whenever I cranked over the motor when started, it was a lot louder than usual, as well as more...metallic I guess. I wasn't too worried because the sound was definitely coming from the starter, not the valves or something.
I come out the next morning to take the car to the gas station to give it some nice California 91 pisswater. Started up with same loud cranking as before. Backed out and started driving down the street. Every time I would push the clutch in, the car would rev...oh no! The idle was also quite high like 1300-1700 rpm. I thought that maybe the car was having some issues with the gas, as a quick look at the A/F gauge showed that it was not in closed loop and that it was running quite rich.
On my way to the gas station the car seemed perfectly fine, except for the fact that I still needed to bleed the clutch some more and that the idle issue was still happening. Pull up in the left turn lane to make a U-turn into the gas station. Idling...then all of the sudden the car dies. Doesn't make any noises or anything. Cranking...cranking...nothing. It won't start. Just making that annoying starting noise. It was turning over, had enough battery power, didn't want to start though.
Called the tow truck and we pushed it into the gas station. The mechanic there told me to crank it. As soon as I did he motioned for me to stop. He said I wasn't getting any compression, and that my timing belt must have skipped. He had me take off the timing belt cover and crank it over until the cams lined up. Then he looked down at the crank pulley and said it was off.
So I tow it home, start taking apart the pulleys to get the timing belt to check for myself. But as far as I can tell, all the marks are lined up. I have some pictures attached to show you.
Sorry this was so long, but I really need my car running. Any ideas as to what is wrong? I was planning on doing a compression and leak down test. Any other tests to perform?
