Thursday, October 14, 2010

bad luck

wednesday afternoon, i'm finishing work and putting my sign away:

and i leave my van running and think to myself 'hmm, sounds a bit rattly - must remember to check oil when i get home', and promptly forget about it. van's running fine, not heating up or anything.

this morning i jump in the van, back it out the drive and put it in first. fuh-fuh-fuh-fuh-fuh, and it loses power, no revs. put the clutch in, give it a rev, kinda comes back. let the clutch out and it stalls. back it down and park it on the wrong side of the street and call racq. figure its an electrical problem. mr racq comes and says 'uh, mate- that timing belts rooted. shut her off and i'll call you a towtruck'

what sucks the most at this stage is the fact that i had the timing belt and tensioner (and water pump) done 4 months and 4 thousand km ago. getting pretty wound up about this stage. :(

talk to the mechanic and its not the timing belt. its the crank. arrrrgh! apparently the keyway on the end of the crank (for the crank pulley) is worn, and while the cranks turning, nothing else is. so i've got bent valves and a knackered crank. second hand engine getting reconditioned - looking at about $3500 incl. labour to get my jigger back on the road. at least i'll have a nice new engine.

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