I replaced the belts, pulleys, and tensioner and that fixed it. One of the bolts that holds that on is under the lower timing belt cover. If your car is one that still has a timing belt you will need to change it according to the manufacturer’s recommendation usually every 60,000 miles or 5 years. Many newer cars have timing chains instead of timing belts as these last longer. I thought I had a bad tensioner, but it turned out that oil had leaded under the timing belt cover from the oil filter housing gasket. In an interference engine the timing belt also stops the valves being struck by the pistons. When I got to the belts I found about 4" of the groves on the belt sheared off, but the belt held. In my case I had been going about 20 to 25 mph and the belt slipped.
#2002 mitsubishi lancer timing belt replacement driver#
I found a video online for 2003 Mitsubishi Galant Timing Belt Installation, where the belt had actually broke, however, the driver had only been going about 5 mph and after he replaced the belt, everything was fine. So my question is this, is there a better simple test for this or is the only way to tell for sure is to pull the head and look at the values? If all it takes is another timing belt because this one slipped, I can do that work, but I don't want to waste the time and effort on it if the values are bent and I have to get the head redone at the same time due to the cost for an older car. What am I missing here? I've always heard if you break a timing belt on an interference engine and in some rare cases even an interference engine, the values are bent, period. However, that is guesswork right now until I actually do the test. I have a compression tester and I'm going to test the cylinders, but if the belt slipped I'm thinking a zero reading may be because things are out of alignment for the compression stroke to work. In the video he did it and it started and ran fine! He said he has had great success by putting a new timing belt on and then firing up the engine. Then I watched a video by Eric the Car guy What to do when your timing belt breaks where he had a Honda (which has an interference engine) with a broken timing belt. I also assume that the belt has slipped and that is why it won't start. I got it towed home anyway, pulled the timing belt cover and there wasn't any broken belt, but when I did the same visual test looking through the oil filler cap, nothing in the engine moved when I tried to start it either, which I assume is due to no compression from bent values, but I'm not sure. Moreover, I've read that 70% of the cars on the road have interference engines, so this is something I want to make sure I understand. Since it's an interference engine and it had high miles, they said to scrap the car. Nothing moved inside on the engine, so they assumed it was a broken timing belt. They pulled off the oil filler cap and looked in while someone cranked the engine. I pulled off the road and then had it towed to a local mechanic. While I was driving it all of sudden the engine just died. I have a 2003 Mitsubishi Galant 2.4L SOHC engine with 251k miles on it.
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