BS belt broke - extreme vibrations

[93AWDDSM]

Hey so a few days ago I noticed increased vibrations in the cabin around 2.5k rpm and higher. I thought there might be an issue with the timing belt so I pulled top cover off and saw a little shredding of the passenger side of the belt. Went further into depth and pulled the entire timing cover and found this.

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I have since replaced both belts and it runs fine. The only issue I have is the BS tension-er pulley is noisy. I'm going to replace all timing components here shortly within a month. Is the noisy pulley going to fail before I replace it or could I potentially get away with it just being noisy for now?

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thanks.

 

[Dstarperformance01]

I have since replaced both belts and it runs fine. The only issue I have is the BS tension-er pulley is noisy. I'm going to replace all timing components here shortly within a month. Is the noisy pulley going to fail before I replace it or could I potentially get away with it just being noisy for now?

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There is no way of know when the pulley will fail. It could be 3 days it could be 3 years. I would be very easy on it if you reuse it until you get a new one.

 

[93AWDDSM]

I have 100 miles so far both belts. I haven't boosted. It's my DD so I shift around 3 to 3.5k rpm and am going very easy on it until I get the new parts. Also, she is old... 200,157 miles now. So I'm just trying to keep it alive! haha

thanks for any responses

edit: this isn't the first time the belts were changed. both BS and timing were replaced at 160k miles

 

[pauleyman]

There is no way for us to know when it will fail.

 

[miliman13]

^ surprised it didn't grenade your engine.
Not all similar situations end up this well.

 

[93AWDDSM]

There is no way for us to know when it will fail.

okay. I guess I'll get to it asap.

@miliman13 - guess I got lucky on that one. caught it before any real damage was done. Thought I was going crazy with cabin vibrations.