The price of bad maintenance!

[LKWTSI]

I have to take the blame for not doing this sooner, but figured I'd run the car 'till it was time to replace a few things. Sadly I did the obvious. plugs filters etc, BUT not the T-belt or below the Timing cover stuff.

So after a stripped T-belt I pulled the motor and found some of this damage. Which was not caused by my bad skills, but an idiot, passing himself off as a mechanic. I found the A/C belt tension pulley missing a nut to secure the pulley to the adjustment frame. I found the T-Belt tension bracket missing a bolt to hold it to the block and whether or not this aided in the failure of my T-belt , I don't know, but the A/C pulley not being secure allowed the pulley to sit back and rub on the timing cover.

I have a couple of pic's to show the disaster and show what a little bad oil leak can do for you.

This motor will be spared out and my new motor will be going in soon.

Take a lesson from my book and if you buy a DSM, go over it with a fine tooth comb and do the T-belt and timing cover replacement as soon as you can. This is not for the faint heart and I have nobody to blame for not doing it sooner.

 

[GSXSixteenG]

Thats a pretty serious oil leak. You live and you learn.

 

[slowboy101]

dang bro sorry to hear this

 

[KadieTSi]

That's how my timing cover looks on the inside too although no pulleys in my ownership have ever rubbed. That is one helluva oil leak

 

[bluegs03]

guys it might be a very small oil leak that has allowed to be run out of control for months maybe even years of daily driving creating what you see today. Just a heads up, but a good lesson learned from all of this if not an expensive one

 

[knochgoon24]

While you're in there, replace the front main seal. That could be the source of you leak and it's pretty cheap to replace.

 

[slowboy101]

that would be a good idea to just get it out of the way

 

[LKWTSI]

While you're in there, replace the front main seal. That could be the source of you leak and it's pretty cheap to replace.

Yeah, I would do that, but I have a whole new engine that's getting built and all new seals and gaskets and getting done right this time.

I'm in the middle of pulling this one and putting together the new one and doing some new mod's to the new one that I wanted to do to this one. Just glad I didn't do it before this one went pop!.

 

[rw87tt]

Just a FYI. concerning your oil leak. I recently had to replace my water pump and of course had to undo my timing belt. I also decided to remove the balance shaft belt to clean everything up because there was oil all up in there. Due to my total lack of paying attention to detail. I had to reprime my oil pump. (I won't mention what I did) I did it while all the tentioners were off. While spinning my oil pump with my cordless drill I noticed oil comming out of the tentioner bolt hole for the balance belt and the bottom bolt hole of the timing belt tentioner. But not as much as the balance belt tentioner bolt hole. I did not see a reason for them being tapped into the oil galley being thet these rollers use sealed bearings. I reinstalled the bolts with thread sealer. I don't know if all 4g63s are all like mine. I imagine they are. Hope this helps. Good luck on your new engine.

 

[vanilla gorilla]

Just a FYI. concerning your oil leak. I recently had to replace my water pump and of course had to undo my timing belt. I also decided to remove the balance shaft belt to clean everything up because there was oil all up in there. Due to my total lack of paying attention to detail. I had to reprime my oil pump. (I won't mention what I did) I did it while all the tentioners were off. While spinning my oil pump with my cordless drill I noticed oil comming out of the tentioner bolt hole for the balance belt and the bottom bolt hole of the timing belt tentioner. But not as much as the balance belt tentioner bolt hole. I did not see a reason for them being tapped into the oil galley being thet these rollers use sealed bearings. I reinstalled the bolts with thread sealer. I don't know if all 4g63s are all like mine. I imagine they are. Hope this helps. Good luck on your new engine.

First 4g6 I worked on, I did the BSE....and when I put the front cover back on, I basically had to seal every one of the bolts that hold it on to keep it from leaking.

 

[DSMDriver69]

While you're in there, replace the front main seal. That could be the source of you leak and it's pretty cheap to replace.

+1 on replacing the main seal. You can only learn from your mistakes

 

[LKWTSI]

First 4g6 I worked on, I did the BSE....and when I put the front cover back on, I basically had to seal every one of the bolts that hold it on to keep it from leaking.

I've been told that and I'll make sure I seal them good. As for the other stuff. This new motor has the BSEK and new oil pump and all new seals at every place I can think of that would obviously need it.

Thanks for the advice and hope some else can learn from this and not have to go through this...unless they like pulling their DSM apart for no good reason