Fun with belts

[neo6205]

So yesterday I was driving home and the engine sounded bogged down. Had little to no acceleration in the upper RPMs. Got off the highway and the CEL came on and it idled really rough. Ran the codes and 2,4,6 are misfireing. Took off the timing belt cover and came to find that my timing belt slipped and started melting to crap so now there's burnt rubber and some sort of rubber dust all over. Turns out the dust burnt out the water pump. Time for a coolant flush I guess. It also got into the tensioner pulley and that barely moves. The idle pulley is pretty gooped up too. That damn belt dust stuff got into the seals on the camshaft so that should make this interesting. The frayed timing belt got beneath the drive belt and now that needs to be replaced too.

Local Yota dealer says it'll cost $850+ but I think I should be able to handle it cause my neighbor is a mechanic and isn't too busy so he's letting me use one of his lifts so I can always ask him for help.

And to think I just dropped $600 on the insurance deductible and getting the bumper refinished from the keying incident.

[noodlerooney]

Nice car, but some bad luck, good luck with the repairs. Even though you don't bend valves, a bad timing belt can still do a lot of damage. I'm wondering why it didn't just loose time instead of messing everything up, think you had something seize/bind up, idler/tensioner maybe?

[neo6205]

Both the idle and tensioner pulleys spun but with a fair amount of resistance. Dealer said they should spin easily. I think what maybe started it all was the timing belt. I was told that the previous owner had taken care of that at 60K. The mechanic looking at it said it looked like an old belt and questioned whether it had ever been replaced.

OOOO, the fun I'm having scraping burnt belt rubber off everything!

[SleeperSolara]

That sucks man.
Good luck on the repairs.
When i brought my DWP to get the timin' belt done there was 2 leaks in the water pump and my dogbone bushin' mount fell apart when he was takin' it off. [was already cracked and all......]

[Solorange]

Sorry, you hear about your luck I hope you get it all worked out well. My car is at 86k right now with no timing belt changes yet, Thats on my next thing on my list to do. I better jump on that. I dont want to have a worse mishap.