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Old 11-25-2003, 10:35 PM
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Question snaped T-Belt, fixable????

i have a 95' eclipse GS and the timeing belt snaped on me the other day. and i was wondering if it was even worth the effort to rip it all apart and put in a new one. or did the belt rip the inside of the engine apart when it snaped. or would it be better to get a new engine. and does any one know where i can get some steps on how to replace it?
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Old 11-25-2003, 10:46 PM
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Re: snaped T-Belt, fixable????

whoa... just replace the belt
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A lot of the time the valves are just fine. But that all depends on how he was driving it when the belt snapped, and if the valves where able to shut before the pistons came up.

Id replace the belt and see what happens.
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all depends what you broke.. have the mechanic find out what's broken when you take it in to have the t belt put in. i infer it's going to a mechanic because the question was brought up in the first place.
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A lot of the time the valves are just fine. But that all depends on how he was driving it when the belt snapped, and if the valves where able to shut before the pistons came up.
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whoa... just replace the belt

It would be better for everyone if people didnt give advice on things they arent familiar with. Its not going to help the original poster, or anyone else.

Any time the belt breaks on an interference motor the valves will contact the pistons. Thats what "interference motor" means. The cams will stop in some postion. No matter WHERE it stops, there will ALWAYS be at least one set of valves still open. At no time in the cycle will all valves be closed... So at least one pair of valves will be bent.

Just replacing the belt and not looking for bent valves is a bad idea for two reasons. One the bent valves could continue to do some damage depending on the situation. Two, you will have to UNDO the whole tbelt job to pull the head and fix it, then REDO the whole job a second time. Just pull the head while the tbelt is banjaxed and get it fixed. Luckily the NT cars are a LOT easier to do tbelt jobs for than the 4g63s.
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