[V8] Timing Belt / piston-valve interference?

[Moy, Bob]

At 76K and 14 years old your belt should have been replace long ago.  Even
if your car mileage is low the fact is, this belt is over 14 years old.  My
mainentance is to replace the belt 60K or every 5 years which ever comes
first.  Since the car wasn't really running, when the belt broke, I would
replace the belt and just crank the engine and do a compression check on all
8 cylinders (you might be lucky and the only thing that broke was the timing
belt.  If the compression checks out then I would do a full timing belt job
(water pump, idle rollers, resealing the distributors, etc).

HTH
Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: Duane Bookshar [mailto:dbookshar at ameritech.net] 
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 9:27 AM
To: v8 at audifans.com
Subject: [V8] Timing Belt / piston-valve interference?


Due (possibly?) to a combination of the recent cold weather here in
Cleveland and age, the timing belt on my 1990 went the other day.  It
happened when I was starting the vehicle.  It started briefly, then died.
Now, not knowing it was the timing belt, I tried some things and tried
starting it several more times.  oops.  My question is, are the valves
definitely damaged?  Or is it worth putting on a new timing belt and trying
it, possibly holding out until warmer weather to dive into the heads??  I'm
new to the list, and any help is much appreciated.  Thanks!

Duane

Cleveland, 1990- 76k




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