Pain and Pleasure times of the 200 20v

[Huw Powell]

> 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?

Without casting any aspersions on our friends esteemed wrencher... the
story did rather reek, not read right, to me.  But I have too little
(none!) 20v familiarity to cop much of an attitude.  Considering the
number of complete amateurs who have taken the bull by the horns and
changed the belt/pump on 10v engines without more than the occasional
awkward oil leak, I might suggest a second opinion on that motors
condition and how it got that way!

-- 
Huw Powell

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