If the timing belt skip say a couple of teeth (car never restarted), what type of damage can be expected? This has hapopened to me and my mechanic says i need to rebulid my engine.
The timing cover came of and alot of the nylon is missing fom the gear. He says he must clean out the engine of the nylon and remove the oil pan (to get to screen?).
Also he said my pushrods and valves must also be damaged with that type of skip and says i need a engine rebuilt. He qouted me for $4000 at first then went down to 3500(with use of some used parts).
That is too much for me so i am having the car towed back to me with the timing cover off and loose parts. I plan on doing most of the work with the help of this forum on my own this summer. The farthest i ever gone into the engine was doing the intake manifold gasket.
I need some serious advice on what steps to take to repair my daily driver. Is this something that can be done with the engine in the car. This forum has never let me down, so help me if you can. Thanx
The timing cover came of and alot of the nylon is missing fom the gear. He says he must clean out the engine of the nylon and remove the oil pan (to get to screen?).
Also he said my pushrods and valves must also be damaged with that type of skip and says i need a engine rebuilt. He qouted me for $4000 at first then went down to 3500(with use of some used parts).
That is too much for me so i am having the car towed back to me with the timing cover off and loose parts. I plan on doing most of the work with the help of this forum on my own this summer. The farthest i ever gone into the engine was doing the intake manifold gasket.
I need some serious advice on what steps to take to repair my daily driver. Is this something that can be done with the engine in the car. This forum has never let me down, so help me if you can. Thanx