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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!EE.Stanford.EDU!isl!mack
- From: mack@isl.Stanford.EDU (mack)
- Subject: Re: Timing belt replacement in a Sentra
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.191644.23389@EE.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: usenet@EE.Stanford.EDU (Usenet)
- Organization: Stanford University
- References: <1992Jul20.183632.12829@EE.Stanford.EDU> <eur.711812403@dutncp8> <9927@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 19:16:44 GMT
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- 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.
-
- 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!? :-)
-
- >John
-
- --mack
-
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