That's what the roll bar is for. ;-)
OT Car won't start
Sep 02, 2009
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We had an Oldsmobile Delta 88. It was an '87 IIRC. Had the 3.8L? transverse V-6. Anyway, my wife was driving when the belt broke, car came to a rather quick stop, as in she didn't have enough momentum to coast off the road. When I pulled the heads, I found a bunch of bent valve stems.
So yeah, GM was guilty too.
What overhead valve engines are built that the piston will NOT contact the valves at TDC, providing that the valves are stuck open as they may be when a cam drive breaks?
2.2l Subaru boxer.
Gates publishes a timing-belt guide that indicates which engines are interference-type and which are non-interference (Gates calls them "free running"). In this list, if there is an asterisk next to the engine, it's an interference engine, which means that the valves can contact the pistons if the timing belt breaks:
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Volkswagon!
Steve R.
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some of them listed.
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some more.
VW has a few listed!
1976-91 All Except 1.9 2.1L Engine 1990-92 1.6L Golf (CANADA) Jetta 1990-95 2.0L GTI Jetta GLI Passat 1.5 Diesel 1.6 Diesel 1.8 Turbo 1.9 Diesel 2.5Join the Discussion
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