On 4/14/2019 13:23:54, mike wilson wrote:
On 14 April 2019 at 14:51 David J Brooks <pentko...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 9:03 AM Alan C <c...@lantic.net> wrote:
My younger daughter had the misfortune of cam belt failure on her 1995
Hyundai Accent 1.5 csi. to square
Thanks for listening. I feel much better now.
I had a 79 GMC Jimmy that developed some bent valve guides which i
never got around to fixing until the engine blew and i replaced it
with a wrecker engine. I replaced the one side spark plugs weekly and
the gas station i went to joked about filling up the oil and checking
the gas.:-)
Bending the valve _guides_ is pretty spectacular. Diesel engines generally
fare much better with snapped belts. Rumour has it around these parts that
Renault engines have specific failure points in the rockers, allowing them to
snap rather than dislodging the camshaft.
Some engines are designed as NON-interference engines. Even though they have
designated intervals for replacing the cam belt, the advice I got from the
dealer was "Drive it until it breaks. Doesn't cost any more to change it then."
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