Saturday was a regular day, drove to a friend's house and hung out there basically all day and came home that night. The car is 100% fine.
Sunday, I didn't go anywhere.
Monday, I head out to work. Just leaving my neighborhood, I hear an odd rattling sound. Very similar to a heat shield vibrating on something. I was planning to do a few logs and tweak some timing, so I had my laptop with and everything. This rattle only seems to happen at ~3000 rpm. I decide not to beat on the car till I figure this out. Leaving work, I still have this same rattle but at the same time there seems to be this new vibration all the time. I feel it in the wheel when turning, in the gas pedal. I don't think too much of it. Pulling into my garage I hear the rattle at idle. I get out and it turns out my headlight is moving around a bit and making noise on the fender, which explains why it sounded like a heat shield. I am worry free now.
Tuesday, I'm leaving for work and running a bit late. I start the car, only to hear this awful screech and other odd sounds. It only happens for a second and the car then cold idles fine. I open the hood, checking out the belts and everything. It all looks fine. Go back to the driver seat and check oil pressure, etc. It all looks normal. I go back to the engine and finally see this, sticking out from my timing gears.
Yes, that is a balance shaft belt, missing half its teeth. So at some point on monday I striped the teeth off the belt, yet it stayed put which explains the new and slight vibration I was getting. I then drove 15 miles home while the belt got super heated. It then finally broke on startup Tuesday morning and I got so lucky that it just came up. I don't run an upper timing cover and I found it sticking out by the intake cam side. Had I had a cover on, it would have almost certainly got tangled and ruined my motor. That all happened this morning, where I then drove 15 miles to work with no problems.
Once again, this car surprises me. It has never broken down or left me stranded. It sure does like to pull shit like this though.
Sunday, I didn't go anywhere.
Monday, I head out to work. Just leaving my neighborhood, I hear an odd rattling sound. Very similar to a heat shield vibrating on something. I was planning to do a few logs and tweak some timing, so I had my laptop with and everything. This rattle only seems to happen at ~3000 rpm. I decide not to beat on the car till I figure this out. Leaving work, I still have this same rattle but at the same time there seems to be this new vibration all the time. I feel it in the wheel when turning, in the gas pedal. I don't think too much of it. Pulling into my garage I hear the rattle at idle. I get out and it turns out my headlight is moving around a bit and making noise on the fender, which explains why it sounded like a heat shield. I am worry free now.
Tuesday, I'm leaving for work and running a bit late. I start the car, only to hear this awful screech and other odd sounds. It only happens for a second and the car then cold idles fine. I open the hood, checking out the belts and everything. It all looks fine. Go back to the driver seat and check oil pressure, etc. It all looks normal. I go back to the engine and finally see this, sticking out from my timing gears.
Yes, that is a balance shaft belt, missing half its teeth. So at some point on monday I striped the teeth off the belt, yet it stayed put which explains the new and slight vibration I was getting. I then drove 15 miles home while the belt got super heated. It then finally broke on startup Tuesday morning and I got so lucky that it just came up. I don't run an upper timing cover and I found it sticking out by the intake cam side. Had I had a cover on, it would have almost certainly got tangled and ruined my motor. That all happened this morning, where I then drove 15 miles to work with no problems.
Once again, this car surprises me. It has never broken down or left me stranded. It sure does like to pull shit like this though.
