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- From: vlasis@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (vlasis theodore)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Timing Belt on Civic Si.
- Message-ID: <wH7FwB4w165w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 15:35:31 GMT
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- exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (Patrick Taylor) writes:
-
- > In article <1992Dec16.162730.2867@mtu.edu> vetter@mtu.edu (STEVEN J. VETTER)
- >
- > > When the timing belt breaks, the valves currently open will stay open, and
- > > will then have the crap banged out of them as the piston comes to top dead
- > > center. This is very bad :)
- >
- > Indeed.
- >
- > > If you have a manual tranny, you can engage the
- > > clutch quickly and reduce the beating the valves and piston`s take, if it'
- > > an automatic, it will take you longer to take it out of gear and the damag
- > > will most likely be greater.
- >
- > I would think the thing to do would be to shut the engine OFF immediately
- > (AND disengage the clutch if manual).
- >
- >
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- >
- > - Patrick Taylor, Ericsson Network Systems
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-
- timing chains with timming rubber belts a lot of problems have surfaced.
-
- These belts break all too easily and there is an investigation taking
- place among all the Japanese car makers.
-
- I learned this the hard way when my timing belt broke as I was
- downshifting (Aouch !)
-
- The heat generated from todays engines wears the belts very fast.
- I was recommended to change them every 60,000 miles.
-
- If oil gets on the rubber belt you replace them even sooner.
-
- vlasis.
-