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- From: jsw@umiacs.umd.edu (Jeff Webber)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Toyota Timing Belt
- Message-ID: <60212@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 21:41:52 GMT
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- Organization: UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
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- Late Followup:
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- A couple of weeks ago I posted an article about having problems
- getting my Corolla GT-S to run after a timing belt replacement
- by me.
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- The car is running fine. No major engine damage occured (no valves
- bent, etc.) The major cause of my problems was the centerpiece
- in the distributer cap that makes the electrical contact between
- the coil wire and the rotor was messed up. This occured when I
- removed the cap to initially make certain that my problem was the
- timing belt -- rotor didn't move so it was the belt.
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- A $12 distributer cap fixed everything up. I can only assume that
- my compression readings were just plain no good. I had lots of
- problems getting the guage to tighten in correctly and that must
- have been the problem with the readings.
-
- I can change the timing belt on this car in about 2 hours now. :-)
-
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- Jeff Webber / U of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
- path: uunet!mimsy!jsw phone (301)-405-6746 jsw@umiacs.umd.edu DoD #243
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