[s-cars] Serpantine belt breaking the timimg belt

[Tom Mullane]

I really WAS going to try to steer clear of this one, but...

BTW, this is also happens on the 12valve V6 engines and probably others too.
I remember being wanted about it on my old 1993 90 when I was at the dealer
borrowing the timing belt tools in 1996.

Tom


Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 19:37:30 -0400
From: "Fred Munro" <munrof at sympatico.ca>
Subject: RE: [s-cars] Serpantine belt breaking the timimg belt
To: "Kevin Campbell" <kevin.campbell at autodesk.com>,	"s-cars"
	<s-car-list at audifans.com>
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Kevin;

As Dave Forgie so gently pointed out, this list has orders of magnitude more
experience with UrS cars than the few dealers or shops you are likely to
talk to - unless you are in the habit of asking 100's of Audi mechanics your
question.

I personally have had a serpentine belt fail - it split longitudinally and
half flew off. My timing belt cover was not damaged at all by this mishap -
it remained intact and tightly fitted to the engine. A lot of the failed
serpentine belt, however, ended up INSIDE the timing belt cover. If a chunk
had gotten between the timing belt and the crank pulley, I would have kissed
my valves goodbye. The only way INTO the timing belt cover is past the crank
pulley, so I consider myself lucky.

That empirical enough for you?

But maybe I'm just silly.....

Fred Munro
'94 S4