Rick_4g63
Supporting Member
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- Nov 25, 2011
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Simi Valley,
California
I logged in to this account today for the first time after years of not being active. I was off doing Evo stuff and I even gave the s2000 a chance. When I sold the s2k I bought the 1GA I currently have.
When I purchased the car, the previous owner said the timing was done. I took his word for it, but I knew that I would much rather redo it just for peace of mind. After months, and months of putting a timing job on the backburner and buying other parts instead of focusing on timing (I did change ALL the fluids right away). I decided that it was time to do a timing job, especially since I want to tune the GSX and could not bare the thought of having something break for lack of maintenance.
Fast-forward to last weekend. I finally had the time to get it done and low and behold, my jaw dropped. The timing belt auto tensioner was reused (not really a problem) and an allen wrench was used to align the holes. "how do you know they used an allen wrench?" you ask. Well, they NEVER PULLED IT OUT!!!!! The tensioner was placed with the wrench still inside the holes, and I've been doing WOT pulls for a while. It made me cringe so hard by just thinking that at any moment I risked something going majorly wrong.
Which brings me to the point on this thread. That's to remind you all to always, always, ALWAYS, do every maintenance job ASAP because you never know what the car is hiding. I got extremely lucky to not break anything while running the tensioner with the pin installed for unknown miles.
When I purchased the car, the previous owner said the timing was done. I took his word for it, but I knew that I would much rather redo it just for peace of mind. After months, and months of putting a timing job on the backburner and buying other parts instead of focusing on timing (I did change ALL the fluids right away). I decided that it was time to do a timing job, especially since I want to tune the GSX and could not bare the thought of having something break for lack of maintenance.
Fast-forward to last weekend. I finally had the time to get it done and low and behold, my jaw dropped. The timing belt auto tensioner was reused (not really a problem) and an allen wrench was used to align the holes. "how do you know they used an allen wrench?" you ask. Well, they NEVER PULLED IT OUT!!!!! The tensioner was placed with the wrench still inside the holes, and I've been doing WOT pulls for a while. It made me cringe so hard by just thinking that at any moment I risked something going majorly wrong.
Which brings me to the point on this thread. That's to remind you all to always, always, ALWAYS, do every maintenance job ASAP because you never know what the car is hiding. I got extremely lucky to not break anything while running the tensioner with the pin installed for unknown miles.