well,
i start my car up in the morning yesterday.
idling perfect as usual...
put it in gear.
start pulling up the hill,
all of a sudden the car while in gear comes to a nasty stall.
no metallic sounds but abrupt nonetheless.
well shit.
i didn't even try to restart it
i hand't left my driveway yet so the first thing i do is grab the tools and pop my timing cover off.(figured the timing belt snapped or slipped)
saw some fibers on the t-belt but the belt still had tension, so i pulled my ecu fuse and had molly turn it over a few times whil i watched the belt.
everything was fine.
so i start it up. and its shaking bad. not a miss, but just excessive vibrations.
fuck....
its the balance shaft belt.
yeah thats right. only 6 months on it. brand new OEM.
set it myself,
adjusted the tensioner, tightened the tensioner pulley bolt, and measured the deflection with a metric ruler after the bolt was secure.
just another balance shaft belt gone bad.
this is the second motor its happened to me on.
first was my GS 2.4dohc. the belt snapped and luckily it killed my crank position sensor before it took out my t-belt.
on the 4g63. i was lucky again. cause if this happened while i was on the highway, i wouldn't have know until it was too late.
oh well, b/s elimination kit is on order from slowboy racing with the updated OEM MITSU stubby shaft with the new oiling groove on it to prevent oil pump failure.
I dodged a bullet guys. :roll: