OH BUGGGGGGGGGGGGGA!! : {

[craigieeb]

can you tell what this is???????????????????????????????????????
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HMMMMMMMMMMMMM SNAPED TIMING BELT MEBBIES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




I JUST DONT BELIVE IT.

[Davenotouring]

Oh no!!!

Sorry mate!!

[TOURINGDADDY]

Nooooooooooooooooo Is it dead???????? Hope not mate

[craigieeb]

well i recon it's dead like, and the thing is i havnt finished doing the 2.5 yet so im going to have to throw money on this engine till the 2.5 is done

[Jhonno]

race your 2.0

Gutted dude!! When was it changed last?

[craigieeb]

race your 2.0

Gutted dude!! When was it changed last?

GRRRRRRRRRR

i only changed it i think it was just before xmas, and i havnt done that many miles

[Jhonno]

sorry dude

er - you sure the tension was good n stuff? or faulty belt? did you change it or a garage?

[craigieeb]

naaa nobody to blame apart from myself seeing as i do all my own work on her : ( the tensioner was a new one at the same time i done the belt, and it was a bosch belt and i cant remember any faults with it, i just dont understand why the hell it's happend.........?

[Jhonno]

you check the belt was tight enough?

[Jhonno]

ie less than 90 degrees of twist

[craigieeb]

yeah mate it was nice and tight, evan gave it the obligatory couple of turns on the bottom pully (before turning the key) and checked it again, all seemed well, it fired and went so i thought that was that, (as you do) but obviously something is a miss

[billgatese30]

damn it mate, you just don;t have any luck at the moment.

what were you doing when it went??

hope you manage to get it sorted ok and chepaly too so that the 2.5 is ready for transplant.

[craigieeb]

hiya chris mate,
no im not haveing much luck latley am i. (dodgey control arm, then i go and slip a disk in my back, now the timing belt goes, i reeeeeeeeeely feel like sacking the car all together, and buying something else )

anyway i wasn't going too rash when it happend, i set off from the trafic lights put my foot down a bit then pooooof, no power, oil presure light came on, so i jabed the clutch down straight away on with the hazards, and knocked the engine off, poped the bonnet and seen the belt looking at me, and i did actually shout FCUK at the top of my voice, im going to become a recluse (typo) at this rate i tell you.

[billgatese30]

how much longer untill the 2.5 is ready for a transplant? can't you just wait till then instead of repairing the 2.0. get sometime of from work on the sick with you r back so you don't have to worry about getting there niether.

this could become all part of the masterplan

[Andy335Touring]

sorry to hear about your engine mate

Is it posible to get a cheap run around till your ready for the 2.5L ?

[craigieeb]

i see where your comming from with the "masterplan" but, this is the only car i have owned that has pissed me off so much, i dont know if i still want to keep spending cash on it coz my heart is not in it anymore mate,

i dont know i'll probley feel diffrent about her in the morning.

[craigieeb]

sorry to hear about your engine mate

Is it posible to get a cheap run around till your ready for the 2.5L ?

cheers mate,
yeah my dad is going away for a while tomorow so he's leaving me his V6 izuzu trooper till he comes back, i know not exactly a cheap run around but it's free, so that should come in handy for me to pick the head up from being ported and skimed, but the car is supposed to be getting painted in 9 days time aswell

[craigieeb]

more pic's for you




and thats just the start of it !!

i realy am thinking of just breaking it, i cant be arsed with the hassle of striping down this engine, building it back up with shiney new parts only for me to take it back out to put the 2.5lump in, now i have NO transport as my dad ended up not going away ( job posponed) so im now just sick of it all

[JoeP]

more pic's for you

Ouch! Hope everything works out OK.
On a slightly selfish note, 100 posts, Woo, Go me!

[Toby_Unna]

fcuking unnecessary failures really pi$$ me off, i very very nearly kicked the panels of mine in when the oil pump failed, i really did think about breaking it up for parts

sounds like you need a sh**ty pug 205 to run round in, cost a few quid but save you on fuel - and aggro when the bm breaks

is the water pump driven by the cambelt, has it seized? or was something rubbing on the belt? i know it doesn't really matter but it's very odd to have a new belt break like that.

won't have been too loose as has been suggested, really loose belts can jump but it's too tight that breaks them

[ZS]

That's a pain, that engine is now a boat anchor.

[Widge]

Sh1t man, that's really bollocks What are you gonna do?
Can't you take the metro till you have the 2.5 ready, and hurry up on the 2.5? You really considering breaking it?

[craigieeb]

fcuking unnecessary failures really pi$$ me off, i very very nearly kicked the panels of mine in



is the water pump driven by the cambelt, has it seized?

i know exactly how you felt mate, i was exactly the same today but i had a hammer in my hand but i decided just to walk away,

widge, METRO????????? ME, PUBLIC, TRANSPORT? youravin a laugh, i cant remember the last time i used that (honnest)
and i cant realy hurry up the 2.5 as it's getting ported, skimmed, which takes time and im still waiting for a piston or 2, the cam turning up, and now im only getting sickness benefit which is a totaly disgusting rate, so cash flow is slim

i dunno i think im going to do a poll, {break her, or stick the rocky theme tune on and fix the beeeyach???

[Widge]

Fix her. I'm sure some one who has got a spare 2.0 or 2.5 on here would be willing to let you have it mates rates, they can always have it back when you put the 2.5 nitro in.

[john325tewerin]

I'm gutted for yer m8. Life has a habit of doing this sometimes!
Hopefully you won't feel as bad tomorrow.

Here's an m20 2.5 on ebay, not exactly local but food for thought.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 87951&rd=1

[StuBeeDoo]

METRO????????? ME, PUBLIC, TRANSPORT? youravin a laugh, i cant remember the last time i used that (honnest)

Craig....... Sorry to hear about your problems. Hope you get it sorted soon.
I know what you mean about the Metro, if we had a decent road system 'round here, the bloody Metro could be scrapped.
Cheers
Stuart.

[StuBeeDoo]

Oooops - double post!! How did that happen?

[Demlotcrew]

Mate sorry to hear about this, but you must not give up. What doesnt kill us makes us stronger.

A

[Widge]

widge, METRO????????? ME, PUBLIC, TRANSPORT? youravin a laugh, i cant remember the last time i used that (honnest)

Well if it means in the long run that you keep the E30, and after it's been to the paint shop it's going to look the mutts nutts, then maybe you should use it!

[craigieeb]

you guys are right, iv had a second wind and im going to rip out the engine and box, and sort out the 2.5 as quickly as i can, i mean i cant let another E30 die now can i

cheers guys

[Toby_Unna]

not that particular e30 no

been ragging around in mine all day, great toy, definately worth the aggro!

[craigieeb]

sweeeeeeeeeeet how much progress can be made in 1 day............
insted of replacing the piston's in the bottom end of the 2.5 im off to york to get a whole bottom for 20 pounds and as a replacement till the schrick comes, i have just removed a 325i cam from widge's spare engine for a deal on some con rods,big up that man WIDGE there's a guy a couple of doors away from me who works at lord tool hire who is going to get me an engine hoist on monday for freeeeee

i am a happy chappy today

[StuBeeDoo]

sweeeeeeeeeeet how much progress can be made in 1 day............
insted of replacing the piston's in the bottom end of the 2.5 im off to york to get a whole bottom for 20 pounds and as a replacement till the schrick comes, i have just removed a 325i cam from widge's spare engine for a deal on some con rods,big up that man WIDGE there's a guy a couple of doors away from me who works at lord tool hire who is going to get me an engine hoist on monday for freeeeee

i am a happy chappy today

Great news Craig. Glad to hear it. Hope it continues to go well.

[E30Mark]

Craig,

Stick with it dude! your car will look lovely when its finished.

If you are really stuck for transport i have a Renault 19 Diesel for sale, 9 months MOT, noisy bearing... but it keeps on going, my girlfriend does 350+ miles a week in it... 55mpg too all yours for Ԛ£75 if you want...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... %3AIT&rd=1

[Widge]

No worries mate. Just hold on to the con rods for me, I'm kinda swinging away from the 2.8 idea.