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- From: nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Timing belt replacement in a Sentra
- Message-ID: <9927@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 17:58:22 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.183632.12829@EE.Stanford.EDU> <eur.711812403@dutncp8>
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- Reply-To: nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall)
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- In article <eur.711812403@dutncp8> eur@dutncp2.tn.tudelft.nl (Eur van Andel) writes:
- >In <1992Jul20.183632.12829@EE.Stanford.EDU> 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.
-
- Although you don't particularly need to be flamed on top of everything
- else, I gotta tell you that saving about $125 on getting the timing
- belt replaced (lot less if you do it yourself) at 50,000 miles or
- so is a pretty risky saving. 102K miles on the old belt is, IMHO,
- just *asking* for trouble!!
-
-
- John
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- John W. Nall | Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
- nall@mailer.scri.fsu.edu | Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306
- Stephen King, bah! The best horror story ever written is "Dance of the Dwarfs"
- by Geoffrey Household. Probably you never heard of it, though :-(
-