----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 11:27
AM
Subject: CRX: my car broke down on
me!
OKay, when glorious morning, I wake up, get in my
beloved 88 crx si, and drive to work. The car is acting perfectly normal. A
few hours later I take lunch, I go get in my crx, from the instant I started
it, it wasn't acting right. The engine was MUCH louder than usual. It didnt
really sound bad....It was just LOUDER! Also the tach was jumping around. For
example during acceleration in 4th gear at around 2500 rpms it would just jump
down to 2000 and then right back up to 2500 again, really fast. That's
when I noticed it the most. 10 minutes into my trip, the car just quit on me.
The engine would still turn over but wouldn't start. My dad, who is a
mechanic, said it didn't sound like it was firing, so we checked to see if the
spark plugs were sparking, and they weren't. So, we changed coils. That didn't
help. We noticed that the rotor button wasn't turning when we
tried to start the car. So, we changed the entire distributer. That
didn't help. We then took the valve cover off to see if the timing belt was
broken. The belt looked fine. But when we pulled on it there was no tension.
So we turned over the engine to see what the belt and cam gears were doing.
the belt around the crankshaft was vibrating...which suggested to me that the
teeth were broken off at the bottom of the belt. has this ever happened to
anyone? Im just hoping i didnt mess up the valves or pistons. can i get some
feedback please?
thanks,
ronnie
