Timing Belt Problem. Please Help

[GSTRyder]

Okay about a month ago I rebuild my entire engine. It has been running great since then. One day while sitting at a stop light it just dies. When I get the vehicle home I noticed a few teeth missing off the timing belt which was replace two weeks prior to this happening. Once I tore it down I noticed the the timing belt pulley on the right side of the motor that I believe runs the oil pump is exremely hard to turn by hand. Is this normal, or did the bearing go out in it. If I remember correctly when putting the first timing belt on it spun freely. Any advice on what could be the problem would greatly be appreciated.

 

[starscreem]

all the pulleys should spin freely on the timing side of the motor. the oil pump should spin with out much effort so if its hard to spin i would say your oil pump is dead also remember that the gear to the right of the crank the you are talking about also runs that back balance shaft so you could have seized the balance shaft witch will destroy that balance shaft

 

[GSTRyder]

Thanks for the input. The oil pressure is still great, but i was thinking it had to do something with the balance shaft. Do you have to pull the whole motor to get that think out? Its just amazing to me that this would happen even though all parts are brand new that were put in not a month ago.

 

[GSTRyder]

yeah i am beginning to think that the oil pump failed and locked it all up. It had great oil pressure though. I just don't understand this is a brand new oil pump balance shaft bearings and it done this shit. Do not ever by topline parts. It didn't even have 500 miles on it when it failed. Will a 1g pump work on a 2g motor?

 

[Mitsu RacerX]

From what I know the pumps are the same and should work fine.

 

[Carlz0r]

May as well do a balance shaft elimination while you're at it. You don't have to pull the motor to do it, although it does make it a decent bit easier.

 

[DSM_Zak]

I did the BSE elimination in my car, I couldnt quite get the motor to drop low enough to clean the fenderwall, so I pulled it out as far as I could and used a hack saw. Cut it in half then pulled the other half out. take the case over to the bench and start eliminating.

Vfaq has a write-up in detail.