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Re: My coupe wanted to die... [Re: ] #1268404
08/10/2011 08:37
08/10/2011 08:37
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Glad it's still alive Marco. She's a lucky one!

Re: My coupe wanted to die... [Re: ] #1268566
08/10/2011 20:44
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Jesus. Glad you survived.
Hearing this, I have to get a belt guard too. frown

Last edited by Ori; 09/10/2011 09:41.
Re: My coupe wanted to die... [Re: ] #1268581
08/10/2011 21:28
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I think 'check your aux belt' has to be added to the nagging 'check your oil' posts!!


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Re: My coupe wanted to die... [Re: ] #1268584
08/10/2011 21:35
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Marco,.. You are so lucky. This is what happend to my coupe when i bought it.... Frayed aux belt and snapped cambelt. Wrecked engine.

Re: My coupe wanted to die... [Re: ] #1268604
08/10/2011 22:55
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Very lucky dude - I think your driving Miss Daisy styly saved you cool


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Re: My coupe wanted to die... [Re: ] #1268747
09/10/2011 14:18
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This is precisely why flea needs to get those pulley guards done pronto!

Re: My coupe wanted to die... [Re: MCMike] #1268929
10/10/2011 09:24
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Originally Posted by MCMike
Very lucky dude - I think your driving Miss Daisy styly saved you cool


i was over taking at the point of the slapping belt sherading sound.

Re: My coupe wanted to die... [Re: ] #1277883
10/10/2011 21:06
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Have you got it sorted yet Marco?

Thanks for the parts at the weekend.

Re: My coupe wanted to die... [Re: szkom] #1277891
10/10/2011 21:16
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Originally Posted by szkom
I think you need to check the pulleys for their run-out. It appears to be (and I am only guessing from a few pics) that you may have run-out issues with one or more of your pulleys or maybe the bearing at the power steering pump is suspect giving the same symptoms.

Given how the belt seems to have delaminated I think there has been some HCF (caused by the run-out)which has caused a crack in the belt resulting in it peeling away as it has.

Glad you were lucky. Good to see one beat the odds!


As Sxkom suggests.

I believe that misalignment of the belts was the cause of Proccy's serial engine failures, so worth checking the alignment of the ancilliary pullies.


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Re: My coupe wanted to die... [Re: PeteP] #1277899
10/10/2011 21:25
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Originally Posted by petep
Originally Posted by szkom
I think you need to check the pulleys for their run-out. It appears to be (and I am only guessing from a few pics) that you may have run-out issues with one or more of your pulleys or maybe the bearing at the power steering pump is suspect giving the same symptoms.

Given how the belt seems to have delaminated I think there has been some HCF (caused by the run-out)which has caused a crack in the belt resulting in it peeling away as it has.

Glad you were lucky. Good to see one beat the odds!


As Sxkom suggests.

I believe that misalignment of the belts was the cause of Proccy's serial engine failures, so worth checking the alignment of the ancilliary pullies.


Correct Pete, probably at least 3 engines!!!!

Re: My coupe wanted to die... [Re: ] #1277930
10/10/2011 22:05
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Hyperlink - not fixed yet.

I'm ill in bed.....
I will have or up and running this week... But if not Joe may kill me as I'm booked into him Friday!

Just woke up, pop some more drugs, back to bed...

Re: My coupe wanted to die... [Re: ] #1278899
12/10/2011 20:55
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Well I found the rest of my belt.
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