Stop Driving!!!

[Andrew Halket <arbh@domain.elided>]

>  Starting up my 164S today I noticed a distinctly different noise from
the
> engine compartment.  It sounded kind of like a cross between driving
in
>  reverse and a remote control car.


I had something similar on a 33 - Ok a vastly different engine, but.....

I heard a whining sound for a while, but it went away.  A few hundred or
a thousand miles later, a belt broke.  This was because a tensioner
seized and I am sure that the whining was the belt running over the
seized tensioner wheel - and bedding in.  Belts will run for a while
without tensioners...but not for long.  (the car actually still ran on
two cyclinders...!)

Has this engine got balancing shafts?  If so, this drive belt and
tensioner can be a problem.

Andrew
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Andrew Halket
The Technology Partnership plc
Cambridge, England
+44 1763 262626 (Phone)
+44 1763 261582 (Fax)

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