Timing belt ?

[tom04841]

If timing belt slips a tooth, are the valve toast (bent)? Just curious.

 

[FASTSPOOLINGST]

try to put it at tdc and line up all the timing marks, pull the old belt off, adjust the teeth to where they need to be, then make sure it's correct, then do a compression test on the motor. If you have low or no compression, the valves are bent.

I heard you can pull the valve cover off too and look at the rockers to see if they are off of the lifters, this means they are obviously bent.

There may be better ways, but that's about all i can think of right now.

Hope this helps

 

[JATBarandgrill]

one or two teeth will usually not bend the valves. It will make it run like crap though.

 

[tom04841]

that is what it is doing. actually, it won't run unless you give it gas. It ran fine in the morning, but went to start it back up and it sounds like sh!t.

 

[poe10shul]

One day after high speed driving on Cali freeways my car started running like shit. I knew timing was off and after returning it to the autoshop the owner answered with timing has jumped a tooth. I say returned because just 8 mos ago and only 3000 miles the shop replaced the timing belt, idler, tensioner while rebuilding the motor due to broken valves. Is this common with these motors? 16V turbo Dohc.
Auto shop has agreed to repair at not cost but I Dont want them to touch my car again, Is there anything I can do?

 

[Defiant]

Establish dominance with your vehicle, and it will do what you tell it to do.

:laugh: :laugh: It's a car. There's nothing there to "dominate". It's a goddamned, brainless, soulless, $20 wad of steel and plastics. Don't fool yourself.

 

[WhiteCloud]

I don't know if I had extremely good luck or what, but I haven't found timing my engine very hard, and I had no experience when I did it. I just followed the VFAQ word for word and used C clamps to hold the belt teeth in place on the cam sprockets--while the cam sprockets are lined up.

If you do that, the rest it a piece of cake! Just make sure that your tensioner pulley is in the right position. The bolt through the tensioner pulley you should have noticed by now is not in the center of the pulley. This means that the more you rotate the pulley so that the large side of the pulley is away from the tensioner, the tighter your belt gets if you tighten everything down properly. This may be your problem, if you have the small side of the pulley against the belt, and the large side against the tensioner arm.

 

[Defiant]

Maybe yours is a brainless, soulless, $20 wad of steel and pastics, but I garuntee you mine is not. Just the other day I noticed it was sucking people in and spitting out blood and bones through the exaust.

. We're going to have you pee in this cup, young man. There may be something terribly, terribly wrong there.