Re: Emergency

["Gary G. Erickson" <erickson@teleport.com>]

Mike Del Tergo wrote:

> As they say, You can't worry about draining the swap when you're up to
> your ass in alligators.  I can safely say that if you don't fix the
> Valdez, gas odors will be the least of your troubles.
> You mentioned 2 spare bolts after a tbelt change in your 4000Q. 

Mike's headed down the right track here.

There's a severe BTDT here.

When I did my first timing belt, I thought I would make life easy for
myself and not reattach the lower (or was it rear?) timing belt cover
and had a couple pieces of formed sheet metal and small bolts left over
when I was done.

I did have rather significant oil drainage, and I didn't even think
about the lower belt cover.  A quick call to my local mechanic resulted
in him asking if I had any bolts left over of a specific size.  Sure
enough, he described the two that I had sitting on the workbench.

Turns out that the bolts that hold on the lower timing belt cover, are
also the bolts that secure the _oil pump_ to the inside of the engine
block.  Without those bolts in place, the pump is free to move a bit and
push oil out through those boltholes.

HTH!

Gary

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