CB is down for the count.
About a month ago on my way to work, my timing belt (which only had a about 50k miles on it) snapped without any warning. When I went to inspect the car (didn't know why it died at first) after trailering it home I found the broken belt, which showed no signs of wear anywhere on it. The material where it broke seemed to have just separated between the different layers. Took the valve cover off and found I have a minimum of 6 bent valves, haven't taken the head off to inspect internally (pistons, valve seats, etc). As of now car is just going to sit in my driveway since I'm getting married in a couple of weeks and things are too hectic to mess with it right now.
There are two future plans as of right now:
Option 1 (preferred) - Buy an obd1 h22 from hmo and put it in (no full rebuild this time). I will replace gaskets, and timing belt (the stuff I don't want to mess with when the motor is in the car). I will then either part out of sell my h23a1, tough decision since its had so much money invested in it (resleeved, full head work, cams, blah blah blah).
Option 2 - Car will either be sold, or parted out. This would be extremely hard for me to do since I have so much money invested in it, that and I've had this car since I was 15, but nonetheless it is still an option.
Anyways, just wanted to post this in case any stragglers were looking through my thread. Thanks.
About a month ago on my way to work, my timing belt (which only had a about 50k miles on it) snapped without any warning. When I went to inspect the car (didn't know why it died at first) after trailering it home I found the broken belt, which showed no signs of wear anywhere on it. The material where it broke seemed to have just separated between the different layers. Took the valve cover off and found I have a minimum of 6 bent valves, haven't taken the head off to inspect internally (pistons, valve seats, etc). As of now car is just going to sit in my driveway since I'm getting married in a couple of weeks and things are too hectic to mess with it right now.
There are two future plans as of right now:
Option 1 (preferred) - Buy an obd1 h22 from hmo and put it in (no full rebuild this time). I will replace gaskets, and timing belt (the stuff I don't want to mess with when the motor is in the car). I will then either part out of sell my h23a1, tough decision since its had so much money invested in it (resleeved, full head work, cams, blah blah blah).
Option 2 - Car will either be sold, or parted out. This would be extremely hard for me to do since I have so much money invested in it, that and I've had this car since I was 15, but nonetheless it is still an option.
Anyways, just wanted to post this in case any stragglers were looking through my thread. Thanks.
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