XiKeiyaZI
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- Dec 28, 2008
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Goldsboro,
North_Carolina
So... Ironically I was talking about changing my T-Belt (It was the stock T-Belt from '92) whenever this happened.
I was driving down the road talking to my friend that I needed to do a few more things to my car before I was happy with it and felt safe. When i said " Change my Timing Belt" I took off from a stoplight at about average speed, the car sputtered once, and died. I had enough speed built up to roll into a lot.
I jumped out, IMMEDIATELY ripped the timing belt cover off, had him bump the ignition, and bam.. no turn in the cams.
We towed my baby home. I took the pully's, cover, belts, and everything off to find...
1: My timing belt teeth had been chewed off at the base of the crank, so all the crank was doing was spinning in place.
2 : The smaller timing belt had been ripped in half.
Fearing the worst, I rotated the crank so as the pistons weren't (I assume) near the valves.Removing the valve cover, i checked the lobes on the Valves and didn't see any pressing directly on the valves. I turned the CAM gears to check them (dowels up) and never heard anything. They turned over smooth. I rotated the crank a few times.. not a single tick.
BIG EXHALE. The CAM dowels were down, so I assume that the valves were closed just enough to be same from high impact on the Pistons. Thank God.
After a few drooling hours of experiencing my first T-Belt change... I put everything together, making sure all of the marks and arrows and lines were correct per my manual, and cranked it. Didn't hear a SINGLE TICK. But it didn't start.....
Turns out I had unplugged my CAS. Well I plugged it up... cranked it.. started PERFECT. Not a SINGLE tick, idled smooth, sounded good... but different.
Now I feel like.. the car is a bit different....it still runs great... pulls hard (I've babied it over the past few days) and everything...but at high RPM (4k+) I can feel a vibration... The car SOUNDS like it's lacking power, but it doesn't FEEL like it.
So my question is... what'd I miss? Is it just running like it should or did I "F" something up? I was wondering if my CAS had to be adjusted... I took a look at it and you can visibly see where it has been moved before (Not by me, I don't normaly adjust something unless I absolutely have a need to.)
What do I do? @_@ I've drivin' her almost 100 Miles since the change... I just want to be sure she'll be reliable.
I was driving down the road talking to my friend that I needed to do a few more things to my car before I was happy with it and felt safe. When i said " Change my Timing Belt" I took off from a stoplight at about average speed, the car sputtered once, and died. I had enough speed built up to roll into a lot.
I jumped out, IMMEDIATELY ripped the timing belt cover off, had him bump the ignition, and bam.. no turn in the cams.
We towed my baby home. I took the pully's, cover, belts, and everything off to find...
1: My timing belt teeth had been chewed off at the base of the crank, so all the crank was doing was spinning in place.
2 : The smaller timing belt had been ripped in half.
Fearing the worst, I rotated the crank so as the pistons weren't (I assume) near the valves.Removing the valve cover, i checked the lobes on the Valves and didn't see any pressing directly on the valves. I turned the CAM gears to check them (dowels up) and never heard anything. They turned over smooth. I rotated the crank a few times.. not a single tick.
BIG EXHALE. The CAM dowels were down, so I assume that the valves were closed just enough to be same from high impact on the Pistons. Thank God.
After a few drooling hours of experiencing my first T-Belt change... I put everything together, making sure all of the marks and arrows and lines were correct per my manual, and cranked it. Didn't hear a SINGLE TICK. But it didn't start.....
Turns out I had unplugged my CAS. Well I plugged it up... cranked it.. started PERFECT. Not a SINGLE tick, idled smooth, sounded good... but different.
Now I feel like.. the car is a bit different....it still runs great... pulls hard (I've babied it over the past few days) and everything...but at high RPM (4k+) I can feel a vibration... The car SOUNDS like it's lacking power, but it doesn't FEEL like it.
So my question is... what'd I miss? Is it just running like it should or did I "F" something up? I was wondering if my CAS had to be adjusted... I took a look at it and you can visibly see where it has been moved before (Not by me, I don't normaly adjust something unless I absolutely have a need to.)
What do I do? @_@ I've drivin' her almost 100 Miles since the change... I just want to be sure she'll be reliable.