howling after T-belt job?

[Tom Nestor]

Tom Nestor
FCG Networks
Manager, Technical Support
----- Original Message -----
From: "David" <duandcc_forums at cox.net>
To: "Jim Green" <jeg1976 at yahoo.com>; <mswanson at sonitrol.net>
Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: Re: howling after T-belt job?


> So from the sounds of this, the NG is non-interferance at low RPMs and
interferance at high RPMs? How is that possible? We don't have any kind of
variable vales or anything, right? I'm so confused...
>
> Dave
>
> >
> > From: Jim Green <jeg1976 at yahoo.com>
> > Date: 2003/07/23 Wed AM 11:47:37 EDT
> > To: mswanson at sonitrol.net,  David <duandcc_forums at cox.net>
> > CC: quattro at audifans.com
> > Subject: Re: Re: howling after T-belt job?
> >
> >
> > --- 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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