i’m new and wanted to say hello. I know a lot of you have some nice setups and would like an opinion.
Yesterday my timing belt broke at ~5mph and am going to take off my valve cover gasket today when i get off work to check out the damage if any. If there is, i figured i’d go ahead and start fresh with a new/used motor from hondamotorsonline since many of you recommend this place. What would you say is a great setup this route? I appreciate any info. Been saving for this day, and unfortunately it occured sooner than later. Oh well, it maybe a blessing in disquise.
It is possible you got lucky and didnt hurt anything.
My g/f broke timing belt going slow in traffic, no damage.
Depending on your budget this very well may be a blessing in disguise. Your right about going with hondamotorsonline
I couldnt be more pleased with the service I got from Steve.
I went ahead and bought a new timing belt afterwork,
but didn’t get home till late.
I’ll try to pop that in and see how that goes.
2hrs right? probably 5 for me.
no no you can cause even more damage. ie what if a valve is bent and piston is scarred. if you start it up you might actually puncture the piston. at least take hte valve cover off and crank the cams a few strokes, make sure all the valves are moving properly. oh and turn the crank so the white line is horizontal (either way), so the pistons are in the middle
Your going in the right direction. Just slap the new belt on there and it should be good to go. I highly doubt that you bent anything if you were only going about 5mph. You have to be pretty high in the revs to have a collision like that happen and cause damage.
Honda motors are interferance motors, but they are built good and strong and rarely collide when the timing belt breaks, especially at low rpm’s.
It doesn’t really matter what the speed of the car is when the belt breaks, whats important is the speed of the engine. Low engine rpm means you have a good chance none of the valves got bent. I would go ahead and put a new water pump on since you’ll be right there anyway.
alinge timing marks on crank+cams+ pop on new belt+w pump kill 2 birds in one move+check idler pully for play (ps bleed cooling sys properly) once together turn crank by hand 720 degrease (to laymen 2 full cranks) with valve cover off+check valve movement all should move free at this time if all is ok adjust valves to specs all should be fine for another five years or cdn 100km us 65 thous miles? tech dad
tell you how it goes when i get it in.
just for reference…it’s all stock with ~246,000 miles on this engine and i’ll be super impressed if it keeps on chuggin after this episode!
go honda!
-k
Originally posted by XDEep no no you can cause even more damage. ie what if a valve is bent and piston is scarred. if you start it up you might actually puncture the piston. at least take hte valve cover off and crank the cams a few strokes, make sure all the valves are moving properly. oh and turn the crank so the white line is horizontal (either way), so the pistons are in the middle
That’s exactly what happened to me a year and a half ago. I replaced my timing belt and lost a piston 500 miles later…now I’m running a B16…
Well after ~two weeks of off/on working on this after work, finally got it all put back together. It works!..but no power. I think the timing is off and retarded? Anyhow, my bro says i have to take everything back off and adjust it again. (sigh) At least i have a better understanding of what to do now. Thanks everyone! Oh and i still not sure what happened but the timing belt was still there but frayed. i think one of the other belts must have broke and then got caught in the pully, which broke the rest and wound up all behind. It was quite a mess and needed plyiers to unwind it all. I think there was a write up in the tech section on advancing the timing so i’ll go look in that. thanks again everyone!
-k