about an hour ago the worst thing that could've happened, DID. Driving down the highway and 01-1139 started making a weird noise, shaking and rpm's jumping. Then she died. I pulled over to inspect and smelled burnt rubber of some sort. By this time i'm going crazy. See just last weekend I had my TODA valve train and ti retainers put in. I looked around some more and noticed the timing belts was missing a bunch of teeth, my heart dropped. I called acura RSA and the were sending a tow truck. Finally got home and now dont know what to do. What i want to know is how bad did i mess up the motor, any advice please. Will keep posted

 

if you're lucky, it's only the timing belt
worst case...bent valves and who knows whut else

g00t luck!

 

... hopefully nothing serious happened and you just bent some valves


timing belt w/ missing teeth = heart skipping a beat...

 

 

Now i'm starting to lose faith in Toda

 

Toda is proven all over this board. Don't blame the product until you've verified the cause...

 

what really sucks is that i was on my way to pick up a p28 ecu so that i could get it chipped. Now i might just go back to stock, but i love the toda B's, but i'm not sure what to do

 

its not that i'm blaming toda, its just frustration

 

what kind of belt were you using???
if you used a brand new timing belt or a PE belt then you shoulda been ok...

 

it was a brand new one that was put on. Just went and looked at the motor and from the way the valve cover is cut i can see at least anywhere from 5 to 10 teeth on the timing belt missing.

 

how far was your timing advance?

 

Sorry about the bad news dude, perhaps the belt was too loose ? Was it flaping?

Craig - Who is going to order a PE belt when he installs his lup sticks

 

ouch,,,

 

Don't over react until you have all the facts....

 

May belt tension have something to do with it?

 

timing was only advanced 2 notches which is what 4 degrees

 

Ed, I'm shocked you were the first to mention it. A new belt was just put on, they stretch, tension may have been good initially but it should have bene retensioned. Of course, it may have not been tensioned enough in the first place, or it may have been horribly tight.

This has nothing to do with Toda's but is installer error. Granted Toda's are not the most timing belt friendly cam, but if you run todas, you should know that.

edit: Sorry to hear the bad news though


[Modified by Garth vadeR, 8:30 PM 6/28/2002]

 

Well ERIC,..don't sweat it!
You'' have "Jenna" back on the road in no time,...?????????