[V8] V8 steam engine

[Mark Kalbskopf]

OK, 210K miles on the car and the timing belt, idler bearings etc were  
last replaced at 160K.
For some time I've had a noise coming from the timing belt area, upper  
left when I face the engine from the front.
It sounded like a roller bearing or something. Well, I've been  
ignoring it until now, but its beginning to sound like a steam engine  
with a regular chugging and various rough /grinding noises.
Is this the idler pulley and adjusting rollers going bad, or does  
whatever the camshaft spins in, go bad?

(And I was trying so hard to get the car through until the end of her  
last year at college!)

Anyone want to buy a V8 steam engine?

Mark.