If it were me I'd drive it like I stole it until it failed and then replace the engine.
The question is why if you saw it wobbling 6 months ago did you wait until 2 weeks ago to deal with it after a complete failure? BTW, you're not the only one I've heard of having a crank failure after a dealer did the timing belt. Had a guy in our club have his 95 lose the crank. Of course the dealer denied fault. Larry Alster 91 Miata White Knight 92 Miata Silver Bullet 92 Miata Honey B 04 MSM MX-5 Whooosh 06 WRX STi Subie From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Glenn Johnson Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Crankshaft Loctite Repair Longevity Hi folks. Unfortunately after spotting a wobble on the crankshaft accessory pulley 6 months ago, a strange intermittent whirring noise at idle 2 months ago, and finally a loud rattle a idle 2 weeks ago, I found a broken crank key and damage to the key way on my '97 FMII. This has now had the "loctite fix" applied to it including bonding the timing pulley onto the nose of the crank shaft, but what's the list's view of the longevity of the fix? Should I drop the rev limiter and generally baby the car, or is this fix up to normal "bouncing off of the redline at full boost" activity? Annoyingly, the car is only 5k miles (though 2 years) past it's second timing belt change, done by the local dealership when I was feeling flush and lazy.. Any thoughts or experiences? (obviously I've now started saving for the junkyard engine). Thanks, Glenn
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