Hopefully there won't be any other consequences from her driving the car while it was running hot, she knows better, but knew she was where she wasn't suppose to be(bad mom), 72 year olds don't like to be stranded on a highway in the middle of the delta I suppose
, yet I hope she's learned her lesson-- maybe the timing belt breaking was the best thing that could have happened under the circumstances.
She didn't say the car was making any noises, but she did smell something burning after it just cut off... who knows, I ordered the parts today and they should be in tomorrow, so time will tell...
Thanks again...
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Originally Posted by Florsuzo
Hmm...I'm not sure how it went from overheating (running hot) to replacing timing belt, etc. here.
If your timing belt broke it definately would stop. But if the vehicle were overheating and someone kept driving it you're looking at other issues besides a timing belt. I suppose it's possible the timing belt seized momentarily on a frozen water pump, jumped a few teeth on the belt, and stopped working. I would think though it would have made horrible noises as this happened.
FYI the water pump is driven by the timing belt.
Question you want to solve first (if possible) is why it started running hot.
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