HOLY ****!!
I've got one of these belts on my car and i've got about 5K in the engine....making me worried now!!!
I've got one of these belts on my car and i've got about 5K in the engine....making me worried now!!!
Still think you have a gear cutting the belts Danny...
2 belts on the same motor , then its not the belts.
and that is a gates belt. A belt that has been in testing for over 2 years.
2 belts on the same motor , then its not the belts.
and that is a gates belt. A belt that has been in testing for over 2 years.
First belt was a Alan key from a mechanic Sam... The gates belts are fine my mate uses them ect
Feel for you Dan, have you any idea what caused it ?
Any damage known yet ? You gonna replace the belt and check compression or just pull the head off and check ?
You running a standard tensioner set-up or a manual one ?
Gutted for you bud but chin up, it'll be worth it im sure.
Any damage known yet ? You gonna replace the belt and check compression or just pull the head off and check ?
You running a standard tensioner set-up or a manual one ?
Gutted for you bud but chin up, it'll be worth it im sure.
wow!! someone who actually has worse luck than me, i feel for you mate i know how much time and effort it takes to put a car together and ive done it over and over the same as you have and its the reason why my thread never gets updated fed up of getting back on track then something else happens and its another spanner in the works.
do you have any more pics of the actuator bracket mate? where it mounts upto etc and any idea on price ?
do you have any more pics of the actuator bracket mate? where it mounts upto etc and any idea on price ?
Onwards and upwards heads nearly off....I refuse to spend my time in building something then fall at the first hurdle ...I will fix/sort it I always do ....
Pmed gaz
Pmed gaz
Terrible news after such a lot of hard work 
It must be heartbreaking having to deal with all of this, it just seems to be one thing then another from the Ibiza to now.....
Is it time to do the prep and drop it off to a specialist to finish setting up? - Get them to sort the timing, mapping etc and check everything is OK?
You get a recepit, piece of mind and at least have some guarrantee against workmanship fault etc.
Rick
It must be heartbreaking having to deal with all of this, it just seems to be one thing then another from the Ibiza to now.....
Is it time to do the prep and drop it off to a specialist to finish setting up? - Get them to sort the timing, mapping etc and check everything is OK?
You get a recepit, piece of mind and at least have some guarrantee against workmanship fault etc.
Rick
Dan, i had a read back through your thread and when your mechanic friend left the allen key in the belt, you found pieces of pulley in the bottom...
At the time you weren't sure what they were - did you ever change that lower crank pulley - i only ask as when i was removing mine (original one so heating it up / hammering the bolt the pulleys inside edge broke off into pieces like your pics (page 74 ish if i remember right)
Those pics were 100% pieces of the lower crank pulley.
Because of the way the pulleys break (there undercut) they loose about 5mm - 10mm of the width of the pulley but they break accurately just leaving a narrower pulley.... to the untrained eye (or if the engines in it's very hard to see) the pulley might look ok but if it's too narrow then bad times..... if you didn't change it maybe the belt was running on and off the edge which can cause a knick then snap.
Just thinking out loud trying to piece together why this might of happened....
Good on you to get cracking and not sink into despair bud.
Personally though I would try and rule out things to stop it from happening again i.e maybe take the OEM cam belt tensioner outta the equation by fitting a manual Integrated Engineering one on & New idler pulley on, check the water pump is nice and free no play in the bearings & New lower pulley (if you didn't already).
Good luck bud.
At the time you weren't sure what they were - did you ever change that lower crank pulley - i only ask as when i was removing mine (original one so heating it up / hammering the bolt the pulleys inside edge broke off into pieces like your pics (page 74 ish if i remember right)
Those pics were 100% pieces of the lower crank pulley.
Because of the way the pulleys break (there undercut) they loose about 5mm - 10mm of the width of the pulley but they break accurately just leaving a narrower pulley.... to the untrained eye (or if the engines in it's very hard to see) the pulley might look ok but if it's too narrow then bad times..... if you didn't change it maybe the belt was running on and off the edge which can cause a knick then snap.
Just thinking out loud trying to piece together why this might of happened....
Good on you to get cracking and not sink into despair bud.
Personally though I would try and rule out things to stop it from happening again i.e maybe take the OEM cam belt tensioner outta the equation by fitting a manual Integrated Engineering one on & New idler pulley on, check the water pump is nice and free no play in the bearings & New lower pulley (if you didn't already).
Good luck bud.
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Not to piss anymore on Danny's parade but you mean one of our manual tensioners considering we made them first right?
Aww mate!
Im gutted for you!
As quite a few people have said, instead of going through the ball-ache of DIY'ing and chancing it going wrong again. I'd hand it over to a specialist so that you get a receipt and get her back on the road with peace of mind.. Im not having a pop, because i know you are **** hot at what you do and what you have acheived alone with the Leon..
I just hope there isnt any damage..
Im gutted for you!
As quite a few people have said, instead of going through the ball-ache of DIY'ing and chancing it going wrong again. I'd hand it over to a specialist so that you get a receipt and get her back on the road with peace of mind.. Im not having a pop, because i know you are **** hot at what you do and what you have acheived alone with the Leon..
I just hope there isnt any damage..
Is a petty history lesson relevant to this situation?
He's got a point tho. I cant see how its happened this many times as being "bad luck" anymore.
I am gutted for you tho mate, but i think you should buy faster cars instead of modifying them now.
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