i was on the freeway and suddenly snap there goes the belt i felt it snap then i felt it leave the car, next thing i know i'm steering myself off the freeway and letting it die right off the offramp, taking it to the shop tomorrow, so ill see what all what wrong, ****ed me off cuzs i couldn't go to palmdale to meet up with the other org members.

 

well if it's your timing belt then you basically have a expensive paper weight for a engine.

 

well i hope all that's wrong is you lost the belt, but you're scaring me! i need to change mine soon or it's just gonna pop off cause i'm getting so worried. that's #1 on my to do list before i go away this fall. that, new brakes all around, alignment, and FSTB(yay, a real mod, not just maintenance). then i'll be good to go (or start modding i should say)

 

well they say u should change them every 60,000 miles or less. make sure u do both also cuz last time i only had the top one done i bet this one was the bottom one. well i get the news tomorrow when i take my car to see all that happened i just hope it was only the belt last time this happened...... messed up a lot more sttuff valves, seals, etc... i hope not this time

 

ok, i'm at a loss...2 timing belts

 

top and bottom? dude what car are you driving?????




lophix w/o a

 

if you really ****ed up the engine, and are going to get a new one, i am searching for a giant paperweight to take apart and learn on.
thanks and I hope it isnt very bad, but generally if your timing belt goes, your valves will stay open and smack your piston head causing bent valves and alot of other bad stuff.
good luck
MrGone

 

the mechanic told me the last time that my top timing belt went out so when he said to i just assumed that there is two thats all i honestly dont know myself????

 

Get a new mechanic!! Only one T-belt on our cars. Loops around crank and both cam sprockets.

 

Yep. He's right! VG's have one t-belt, while the VE's have a chain (well, actually 2, but who's counting??).

 

Actually the VE has three chains.

 

3 chains? How's that. I thought it would be 2..one for each bank of cylinders. What's the 3rd.

 

3, for real? When I bought my car, the chain had broke, so when I dug through the engine I only saw (and bought - in case someone wants to buy them, I've still got 'em) two!

Learn something new every day!

 

Yup, there's three. Remember the VE has dual overhead cams, so it would be damn near impossible to wrap one chain around a crank sprocket, then TWO cam sprockets in each cylinder head. One chain is on the block, and is wrapped around the crank sprocket on the bottom and around two idler sprockets, one at the top of each bank of cylinders. On the actual cylinder heads, there are two cam sprockets, whose chain wraps around these and the idler sprockets. The whole thing is in the shape of a Y.

 

Well first of all, the timing belt wouldn't come flying out of the car unless the tensioner came off and broke the cover, but that's pretty unlikely. Normally you don't feel the belt snap, you might have felt the Valves hitting the pistons that's always a great sound. Good luck man, I really hope that it didn't break.