[s-cars] Preparing for next timing belt change...

[Cory Pio]

Wow that just sucks man

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On Jan 24, 2010, at 5:26 PM, Sean Reifschneider <jafo at jafo.ca> wrote:

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> On 01/24/2010 01:10 PM, Joe Pizzimenti wrote:
>> There has been much discussion on the list about the replacement of  
>> the
>> vibration damper and the viscous coupling bearing. So I'm wondering  
>> if it's
>
> Well, I don't know about the '96 S6, but my philosophy is to replace
> anything that the timing belt touches other than the cams and  
> crank.  So I
> always ask for the water pump and idlers to be done at the same time.
>
> Now, I have no way to prove this, but at around 120k we lost the  
> timing
> belt on our '97 A4 2.8q.  The idler pulley went south and seized and
> snapped the belt.  After looking at the idler, I don't believe it  
> had been
> replaced at 110k when we had it in.
>
> So, $4k later we had the valves replaced and happy.
>
> So even at $400 for a dampener, I'd be tempted to replace it as  
> insurance
> against the valve job.  Breaking in the middle of nowhere Nebraska, of
> course.
>
> The rest of the story is that it actually broken AGAIN after the  
> valve job,
> because the shop that did the valves didn't verify that that all the  
> parts
> had been replaced like I asked them to.  My words were along the  
> lines of
> "Well, the idlers and everything were SUPPOSED to have been replaced
> 10k-ish ago, but it's probably worth replacing just to be sure."
>
> Photos related to the timing belt:
>
>   http://www.jafo.ca/oldphotoblog/entries/20040531_1946.html
>   http://www.jafo.ca/oldphotoblog/entries/20040709_0131.html
>   http://www.jafo.ca/oldphotoblog/entries/20040711_0220.html
>
> And some others when we had lifter problems earlier that year:
>
>   http://www.jafo.ca/oldphotoblog/entries/20040107_1544.html
>
> 2004 was not a good year for our A4.
>
> Sean
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