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- From: speednut@csource.oz.au (mark jose)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Timing belt replacement in a Sentra
- Message-ID: <u96NqB2w165w@csource.oz.au>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 15:49:17 +1000
- Reply-To: speednut@csource.oz.au
- Organization: Unique Computing Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
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- Original Message Subject: Re: Timing belt replacement in a Sentra
- From: mack@isl.Stanford.EDU (mack)
-
-
- > nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall) writes:
- > >eur@dutncp2.tn.tudelft.nl (Eur van Andel) writes:
- > >>mack@isl.Stanford.EDU (mack) writes:
- > >>
- > >>>I need some net.advice for replacing the timing belt on my Nissan
- > >>>Sentra 85. The original belt worked for 102K miles before it gave in,
- > >>>and the car died on me last Friday. I had it towed home (God bless
- > >
- > > [ ... stuff deleted to save bandwidth ... ]
- > >
- > >>Buy a new engine. If your timing belt came off while the engine was revving,
- > >>it is gone. Broken and bent valves, cracked pistons and a damaged head. :-(
- > >
- > > Well, don't buy a new engine before getting the old one checked
- > > out :-) You may have lucked out. But Eur is more than likely
- > > correct - a busted timing belt while driving at 60 MPH or so is
- > > more than likely gonna cause a lot of internal damage.
- >
-
- I drive a '80 Cortina TE (American's may not know this car - the Brits
- certainly would), and had the drive belt give way while doing 4000 RPM
- on the way to work. Apart from the instantaneous spinning of the motor I
- had no problems. I can't understand how such a problem would occur
- because the instant the belt snaps the valves stay where they are and
- the pistons can't reach up that far to smack them. It could only be if
- the high revs after the belt has broken cause a valve stem to shear.
-
- If there wasn't some sort of clearance, what would happen when the timing
- was out????????
-
- > Actually the engine died on me when I was about to accelerate from a
- > stop sign. My spped never got to 5 mph. I don't know if that changes
- > anything!? :-)
-
- Probably not but boy is not it a pain when it happens??
-
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- mark jose
- speednut@csource.oz.au Unique Computing Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
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