Chobob's garage

[Chobobulous]

Now that it's running the fun stuff is starting to come in.

[Chobobulous]

My first majorish set back!

Oh noes.



Who can guess what happened

[defprun]

oopsies!

[sketchman]

Just one more reason to throw the timing cover as far as humanly possible any time it comes off for any reason.

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Lol yea what ^ he said!

[Chobobulous]

Well I've got almost 200 miles on the rebuild. I scored some sweet, cheap wheels today. Dual bolt pattern so this will push me to upgrade my brakes to the aspire units I have laying in the garage for the past year.

It is still so much fun to drive! I got the exhaust pipe welded up and I got an o2 sensor bung installed. Really nice old guy. He was going on about how he used to soup up pintos back in the day. It was fun.

I've ordered all kinds of parts for the aspire brakes. I have rebuilt knuckles already, just need to do the calipers. I also ordered new kuhmo 165 60r14s. 52 bucks a piece. I could have got them for 32 dollars but I think that it was some crap brand.

[bhearts]

My first majorish set back!

Oh noes.



Who can guess what happened

Isn't that your tensioner spring?

[Chobobulous]

Isn't that your tensioner spring?

yes, it dosent go there at all lol. I had to pry it out with ascrewdriver

[bhearts]

ouch, lol

[bhearts]

you couldnt tell that the timing belt sounded silly, or was causing stanging timing issues with that spring missing. not saying you should have noticed, mainly because im interested in knowing if anything popped up due to that.

[Chobobulous]

you couldnt tell that the timing belt sounded silly, or was causing stanging timing issues with that spring missing. not saying you should have noticed, mainly because im interested in knowing if anything popped up due to that.

I think it caught the belt right on install and crammed itself up there. I heard a whining like if belt was loose but it went away after a minute. I chalked it up to a new rebuild. When I drove it down the road It worked good. Then it seemed to lose power, then it died and wouldn't start. Im assuming when there was no load on the engine there was no problems. But having the load on it caused the engine to skip 13 teeth or something.

[sketchman]

You do know the spring isn't supposed to hold the tension right?

The spring shouldn't be doing anything but "setting" the tension until you torque the tensioner bolt. Then it's actually solid while the engine is running.

My point is that it shouldn't cause a timing issue if the spring lets go, unless it compeletly shreds the belt or it got jammed between one of the gears and belt on the tooth side. I guess you might hear it rubbing if you got your ear really close, though. IDK.

[Chobobulous]

I didn't think it was supposed to and I am trying to think of what I could have done wrong. When I took it apart the tensioner pulley bolt was still tight. It was idling fine it drove fine until I gave it a little gas then it bogged down then nothing. Bad belt maybe? I have no ideas. It could have got caught between the belt and the bottom gear then slipped time?

[Chobobulous]

Chemdip....omfg it is amazing. I dropped an aspire caliper in it last night. It was disgusting and black. I peeked at it a little bit ago and it looks brand new.

[Chobobulous]

Aspire calipers. Before and after. Kinda.