I was afraid that would come up. I'm using an OEM tensioner with the oil feed blocked off, which I've previously advocated as theoretically infallible. (Okay, I never actually said that, but I was pretty confident it was the best way to go.) I guess I should also mention that this belt was installed in 2004, and my recommendation to others has always been to replace the belt every 30k miles OR 5 years, so as far as I know the advice I've provided is, in fact, infallible.
-Joe At 3:37 PM -0800 2/9/10, Brian Shorey wrote: >Ouch. Sorry to hear that, but hopefully the valves are ok. > >If I may ask, what (de)tensioner are you using? > >bs > > > >From: Joe Elliott <[email protected]> >To: Brian Shorey <[email protected]> >Cc: AD <[email protected]>; [email protected] >Sent: Tue, February 9, 2010 6:34:25 PM >Subject: Re: [alfa] GTV-6 engine problem > >I came home from work on a flatbed, and the timing belt has >definitely jumped a couple teeth. But it couldn't be a simple >matter of the crank pulley having slipped, wherein I could just lock >down the cams and put enough force on it to skip the other >direction. The right cam was retarded one tooth, but the left cam >is retarded at least two, so I guess I'm going to have to totally >re-fit the timing belt before I can determine whether or not there's >been internal engine damage. Which means driving the Porsche 928 to >work tomorrow with a couple inches more snow predicted; that should >be interesting. > >Thanks again, >Joe Elliott >-- >to be removed from alfa, see ><http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi>http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi >or email "unsubscribe alfa" to ><mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
