timing belt jumped

[Ldub]

and another thank you to Ldub. thanks for the "email"
david

No problem, I just hope your mechanic gets this resolved & you're able to hit the trails with the gang this weekend...I was kidding when I said that Silouettes RULE off-road.

[IndianaVX]

***UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE ***
good news....kinda, but more bad.
good news is this, my mechanic found out the problem, which is the pin that holds the cam gear to the cam shaft broke, which allowed the cam to spin 180 degrees from where it should be. which explains why when everything was lined up on the marks, it still wouldnt run right, because the driverside cam was 180 degrees from where it should be.
another issue was the the bearing surface between the back driverside lobes was rough and scarred due to oiling problem. i havent looked yet, but i think this is a problem that others have had with the engine failure....or maybe it was the back driverside piston.
more good news is that cam, and other related failures are covered on my warranty, (from reading the brochure, havent talked to a rep yet) so thats good too.
bad news is, its already been two months already, and it looks like its going to be atleast a few more weeks before i will get it back.
my mechanic said he is looking at very least, getting a new head, and maybe a new engine. he said also that some warranty companys will replace the engine with used engines, instead of new ones. i told him to push for as much new stuff as he could, obviously.
soooooo, im sure i will be talking to merlin here pretty soon..
wish me luck, and thanks again for all the help.
if nothing else, i got an excellent write up on how to install a timing belt from a very qualified isuzu person, which i will post up soon.

thanks again peeps,

david

[IndianaVX]

also, a little "testemony"
im a praying kinda guy anyway, but its not often that i talk to God about the mechanics of an isuzu 6VE1 DOHc engine........but i did last night, asking him to help my mechanic find out what the problem was.
the shop opens at 800am. i had a phone call at 810am thismorning with terry, (my mechanic) saying " dave, i found out what the problem is, can you stop by, and ill show you what is going on..."

it seems that so often in our lives, when things are going rotten, we try, and we try to resolve them ourselves, and use prayer as a last resort, almost saying "well, ive tried everything else" instead of praying as soon as a problem starts up.

if you are going thru something in your life, let God know about it, yeah, hes got his own sense of time, and the answer my not be immediate, but that doesnt mean he's not listening and ready to help!

God is good, REAL good,

david

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[IndianaVX]

Well, heres the latest,
if ever given the choice, i WOULD NOT get a extended warranty from gaurdian warranty company.
the warranty company called me today, and said he found a shop that could REBUILD my cylinder head in one day, and send it back out the next day. i am totally disgusted. i had offered to go half way on a new head (899 complete head) and he was going to go for that, then i discover that he and my mechanic talked friday on this rebuilding thing, leaving me totally in the dark for the weekend. so it looks like the head will be rebuilt, if not done correctly, i will probably be broke down again in a couple of months. im trying to be optomistic, but a couple of weeks ago, my mechanic was saying how he wouldnt want to rebuild it from the way the "bearing" sirface was too worn, and to build this up, and then cut it back in would be a lost cause.
who knows.......bout fed up.
i guess ill have my vx back pretty soon though, so thats good.

david

[etlsport]

david, sorry to hear about all this happening to you and your VX i dunno what id do without my vx for two months, two days away from it and i was goin crazy! hope everything works out well though... heres to many years of minimal maintenance driving!

[IndianaVX]

thanks etl, id go for those beers right bout now......lol

well,
yesterday, my cylinder head came in......after 7 days, not 1 day turnaround, and one day back. so im fired up, but tryin not to get too excited, you know......
so today, i figure they are putting things back together, and i was wondering about a motor flush, or at very least, change the oil, filter etc. so i stop by and ask them about this, and how things were going...........


the indexing pin was fixed, and only one cam needed work, so what do these guys so highly recommended by my warranty guy do??? take both cams out, then when reassybling, two of the gears were in backwards, and in the wrong place, and a bolt that holds the cop on, was sticking halfway out, and another bolt wrapped in paper, rolling round loose in the box the head was in........

I dont make this stuff up...............

so my mechanic is fixing what should have been fixed, when it was sent to be fixed.....he told the warranty company that they just singed an open ticket to get this going again which means to me, for the amount that this head repair is gonna cost anybody but me, we could have had a NEW COMPLETE CYLINDER HEAD FOR LESS THAN 900 BUCKS............go figure

i didnt even have the energy to ask when they thought they would have it done.....

Hopefully, in the next 30 days i will be back in the vx saddle again!!! lol

take it easy people
thanks

david

breakdown date 3-30-2007 76 days ago

[biju]

Hang in there! Hope all comes together as it should, and she runs like new!

-biju.