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| Woodie | Jul 24 2014, 04:43 AM Post #16 |
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You can just leave it off, the cover does nothing at all. Just stop wearing a tie when you work on your car. You're going to need to do something to secure that bundle of wires to the top of the valve cover. All Suzuki G engines are non interference except the DOHC in the GTi. Something went wrong there, bad tensioner or something. That belt is rated for 100K miles, and they rarely break even if you ignore that. |
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| bluestone | Aug 6 2014, 06:48 PM Post #17 |
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Jess, I consider myself a novice at this stuff but I wound up having to take the timing belt off my 3-cyl 92 GeoMetro while replacing a water pump recently. Replacing the timing belt and setting it correctly does look intimidating but it can be done. In my case, I didn't have the money to pay anyone else to do the work for me. I have cheap metric 3/8 socket sets and boxed wrenches. The first several times, never having done this before, the belt slipped -- sometimes by one notch only -- but it was enough to throw everything off. It wouldn't start. I ran down the battery and had to get it charged twice and jumped once. I thought that I had ruined everything. But, I used White Out to mark the belt and the camshaft and crankshaft gears after I had correctly aligned the marks. That's when you can detect the slippage. The first time the belt doesn't slip it starts right up as though it was only in a deep, deep sleep. Until that happens, it can be downright demoralizing. But stick with it. If I could do it, anyone can do it.
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| Jess | Aug 9 2014, 01:27 PM Post #18 |
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An update: I finally got my Metro up and running again. I attempted to replace the timing belt myself with a little help from a friend and several how-to guides. The original belt was broken and basically shredded which left a big mess in the cover. I still have no idea what caused it to fail after only 11 months because the tensioner was fine. The only odd thing is that I found 2 loose nuts inside the cover. I got the belt on and the timing marks all lined up. The car wouldn't start even after being put back together. There was no spark. I assumed that it was the position sensor. I replaced that and again, no spark and no start. Checked all fuses and found nothing. So I gave up and had it towed to Firestone. Apparently somehow the camshaft sprocket was not being held on by the key, which was behind the sprocket instead of in its proper place. As far as I know we never touched the key, but who knows what happened. Also: Firestone mechanic never found a place for the random nuts either. Edited by Jess, Aug 9 2014, 01:28 PM.
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