howling after T-belt job?

Jim Green jeg1976 at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 23 09:47:37 EDT 2003


--- Marc Swanson <mswanson at sonitrol.net> wrote:
>
> > Huh? NG is non-interferance? Really? I head that
> there had been documented cases of valve collision
> in a case of a broken belt. So, what's the truth?
> Interferance or non-interferance...
>
>
> well, I can tell you that on an NG you can take off
> the belt and spin
> the crank or cam with no interference.  That said,
> if things are a bit
> out of tolerance I imagine the possibility exists
> that you _COULD_ get
> valve-piston collision.


I've done it, belt snapped at 5k, bent 4 valves.  I
wish I would have put that $1K into the turbo swap

=====
Jim Green
'89 90tq 034EFI Stage II
http://www.geocities.com/jeg1976/car_home.html

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