Pain and Pleasure times of the 200 20v

[Richard J. Andrews]

sounds like you need a new mechanic?
never heard of a distributor blowing due to a shorted wire...
sounds fishy to me..

crank has a sprocket?
though it was a belt @ the crankshaft via the harmonic balancer...
the only (chain) sprocket is in the head connecting the two cams together....
now when you say the crank sprocket is sheared do you mean the teeth
on the harmonic balancer...

possible mr. mechanic goofed and dropped something in your head causing 
catastrophic damage?

anyone care to chime in here?

HTH!

-rich
Three weeks to tomorrow ago, my 91 200 20v just stopped to start. I
>immediately contacted Arun Rao( another 200 20v owner and my cousin) it
>immediately seemed to point to a dead fuel pump. I had the car towed to my
>mechanic's shop and the next day he informed me that the fuel pump was
>fine and it was actually my distributor. within a few minutes of his
>changing it, it blew (apparently due to some wire that was
>shorting). With a replacement (All Bosch) and new spark plug wires as
>well during the test drive, the engine just stalled and the mechanic
>pulled it over and diagnosed the problem to a potentially serious woe. A
>sheared sprocket on the cam shaft. The one that is driven by the timing
>belt. The hope was that it was a synchronous shearing and all the valves
>and pistons had behaved..... hmmmm... looks like no such miracle has taken
>place. I just got worse... the driving sprocket on the crank shaft had
>also sheared. I am here trying to figure out the root cause of the 
>problem. The
>questions that are bubbling around are ....
>
>1. Why did the first distributor die... Haven't had a chance to look at it
>to try and figure out cause. The timing belt was replaced 10, 000 miles
>ago by the same mechanic
>2. Assuming the burnt dist. was due to a shorted wire.... did something go
>wrong with the way the new distributor was put in that contributed to this
>SHEAR problem... All this for finding root cause and accord blame or
>consider it an act of GOD.
>3. As a result what should have been considered while replacing the
>distributor. Or was the problem in from the time the timing belt was
>replaced and it finally showed itself up now.
>4. Worst of all, now as replacement is it better if I just replace the
>motor itself..... if things are too bad .. like definitely dead 20 valves,
>pistons, head block and ....
>.... All the help I can get will be appreciated ... Right now Uncle SAM
>is not.
>
>Thanks a lot in advance...
>
>--Jaggi
>
>
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