did timing belt, spun rod bearing

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09-06-2006, 02:30 PM

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krustindumm

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Re: did timing belt, spun rod bearing

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Originally Posted by Joseph Davis

Eh, I read that as an ASSumption that it was your fault.

You must love old boy (or his momma) if you're doing free engine swaps for him.

it's his sister I'm after

minor rear main leak, no other leaks. oil was at the low dot.

09-06-2006, 02:34 PM

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Re: did timing belt, spun rod bearing

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anyone ever had anything like this happen? I did a timing belt on a friends dad's del sol. It's about the 25th D-series timing belt I've done, knocked it out in just under 2 hours. Started it up and almost instatly started knocking. I pulled apart the bottom end with the engine in the car, #1 rod bearing was spun. Any idea's how it could have happened? Ran perfect before the belt, 120k on it, timing belt is dead on.

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09-06-2006, 02:52 PM

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Re: did timing belt, spun rod bearing

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it's his sister I'm after

minor rear main leak, no other leaks. oil was at the low dot.

wow, sounds like his sister is in pretty good working order

09-07-2006, 10:59 PM

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Re: did timing belt, spun rod bearing

Bad luck is what it is, I work on cars everyday and sometimes something like that will happen, working on a area of the car and something else gets fucked up.

Whats the right thing to do? Explain to the dad the situation.. hopefully he will understand. Your not liable for what happened. But being your probably a nice guy your probably going to put a motor in for free. So I'd ask his dad to buy a case of beer and maybe some nudies of his daughter. haha

10-07-2006, 01:01 AM

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Re: did timing belt, spun rod bearing

I say for the dad to hand over the daughter for labor done. It's a nice barter I think. I have to say that my old y7 held 14psi using a rhb5 pretty good for 3 months running just on a bluebox. Hell even after it spun a bearing i still drove it but just not over 3k cause it wouldnt knock under that. Ran until the day I pulled it out. Though I'm checking out a 97 4dr LX if I sell my Z. Need a family ride cause my corolla got me a nice 340 dollar ticket.