Re: advice on installing timing belt and wate rpump
Jeff wrote:
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> hold on, on all the super careful advice because i'm buying another car
> anyway and i am just getting the parts installed but want it done right
> and test the car out. if it acts up and a valve is bent it will run
> terrible but i'm confident that's not the case.
a lack of empirical experience tends to breed false confidence.
your original post mentioned that you were driving on the freeway when the
belt broke, this is a worst case scenario. the engine died with the
transmission in gear thus it will keep spinning for a few rotations and the
pistons will kiss the valves since theyre no longer in time.
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