so im drivin home from work and the car just dies.... pull over and try starting it back up and nope not happening... BROKE THE Fing timing belt, i can tell by the sound of it turning over that i have no compression. my question is...... do i buy a junk yard motor or do i rebuild it with new pistons and valve and what not? has anyone else rebuilt their engine with over 100K after breaking the timing belt? what did u replace just the pistons and valves? am i going to need new bearings, camshaft, valve springs etc.?

 

if i were you i would take the motor apart and check to see how damaged it got, then you might consider another motor

 

anyone know where to find a used b18c1 for 800-1200?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by dwamp2006 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">anyone know where to find a used b18c1 for 800-1200?</TD></TR></TABLE>
hahaha

 

sucks

 

u might be able to find one for 1200 but I dont think its gonna be very easy. Why the hell did u not change your timing belt anyway? You chose to save $45 for a new timing belt, now its costing you.

 

why replace the engine if the timing belt went?? why not just replace the timing belt.. ?? no compression because cams arent moving thus open valves. the the block turn over? sound fine? if so just replace the belt.

or am i answering the wrong question? lmao!

 

bought the car a year ago at 64,000 now i have a 110,634 on it. i was going to change it at 100,000 but my girl bought a 00 mazda protege mp3 and i had to put an engine in it and alot of other work so it took all of my free time for about a 2months (only have 3 hours a week lift privealage) but since i put so many miles on my car i just let it go by, hopeing i could make it till the end of the month.

 

its an interfearance engine and i was at about 3,400 rpm when it broke so theres deffenetly some internal damage.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by djmyst305 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">why replace the engine if the timing belt went?? why not just replace the timing belt.. ?? no compression because cams arent moving thus open valves. the the block turn over? sound fine? if so just replace the belt.

or am i answering the wrong question? lmao!</TD></TR></TABLE>
Please tell me your joking me!
Have you ever heard of an interference motor?
Do you know what piston to valve clash is?
Are you aware that when a timing belt goes south the cams and crank don't spin in sync, thus causing piston to valve contact.
If the op is lucky he might have just bent a few valves, thats the best case scenario. But most likely when you take the head off you're going to see pieces of valve stuck on the head and pistons. 99% sure that motor is hopeless. I would take the head off and inspect asap.

 

dang. how many miles were on your belt? If you're only spending $1200, I would suggest rebuilding your engine. You might need a couple new pistons and a little bit of head work, but it's not going to cost more than $1200 for that. at least I wouldn't think!

 

inspect before concluding. but i would definately for sure say you've got some bent valves. sorry for motor

 

I broke my timing belt the same way, and never had any additional damage. Make sure you check it out before wasting money you dont need to.

 

yeah maybe a leakdown test, even though its cold it should tell you somthing. if thats not conclusive, pull the head, now i dont know if you would HEAR some valve to piston loving, thank god its never happened to me, but i would imagine youd know.

still, pull the head, gsr valves are like 20-30 a peice. and you dont need a lift for a timing belt or head work. just a jackstand.

 

i know the feeling, i was driving to my cousins shop last week, i just got off the interstate, stop at the light, took off went to 2nd then went to 5th (thats about 30 mph, 1500 rpms)as soon as i let the clutch out, car shuts off so i take it out of gear and pull off. sucks really raining and crap good thing i had just gotten paid and off the next 2 days, well anway i have a GSR with 150k+ miles and luckily i didnt damage anything.. replaced the belt and now its running like before.

deff should check it out b4 jumping to conclusions, u might get lucky like me,lol good luck!

 

my timing belt broke on me but it was like 2000rpms and all i did was put a new one on but i also replaced the water pump while im there. did a leak down test and it was great!!

 

ok i so i got it apart and i sheered 4 teeth off. did a leak down test and everything is kosher so far. put the new belt on and cranked it over with an unprogrammed key, everything sounded good. so now im waiting on my actual key which my chick has and ill let you all know how it goes...... i might have gottin lucky......

 

consider me the lucky one! got the good key and fired right off...... THANKS FOR ALL THE HELP!

 

wow! good for you dude! glad to see hear that, next time don't get cheap on the maintenance on your car, sometimes we all forget all that we demand of our cars and neglect them and let them fall apart. But thats good you now got it running again

 

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especially if you can do the labor yourself... a timing belt is like 30 bucks.

 

yeah the t-belt was like 45 and the acc. belts were like 60 and i had it apart and back together in like 2.5 hours (pretty good for my first honda t-belt). Thanks again for all the help!

 

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after reading im glad everything worked out ok with this .... same thing happened to me 2 years ago i was not so lucky.

 

SO LUCKY! my buddie had his go out in his 95 gsr about a year ago, he had replace valves and pistons. i convinced him to spend the money on springs and retainers while he was at it. (skunk2). along with the higher comp cp pistons and skunk2 forged valves. he's so much happier haha. glad you were most fortunate!

 

this same thing happened to me in my turbo civic i was going around a corner at about 2500 rpm and my timing belt broke. i thought i would have to change my engine

but i replaced the timing belt anyways and the car fired right up no ticks or anything

i was lucky too!!