Ok here is the situation. Just had new belts put on (fall of '05). Drove car for about 2,000 miles, retension at that time. I was driving the car and all of the sudden a realy stange "rubbing" noise coming from the cranksaft cover. Took it apart and found a small "ding" in the cover between the 2 sections (that cover the cranksaft pully gear, top one). It looks as if someone tried to pry the front cover from the back case with a screwdriver and "chipped" the case. A small piece of metal from the chip scraped the timing belt in half. I now have 2 small belts instead of one. Luckily it didn't break (of course I have not run it since). I am hoping that the mechanic that did this will own up and replace the belt no charge. I will be glad to pay minimal charge if he doesn't agree. Anyone ever see this happen?

 

weird - never heard of it before...

 

Looks like mechanic left something (a tool ?) under the timing cover.

 

i bet that was pretty awakening when you found out you had 2 timing belts!

 

cough...another reason to not run belt covers....cough...

 

Two timing belts! Thats really cool - must be some kind of special order option, it's good to have redundancy on something as critical as this.........

 

it wasn't the plastic timing belt cover. It was the metal on the front of the camshaft where the distributor attaches to the camshaft pulley (on top). I don't believe you can remove this permanently.

 

do you have a picture of this belt..... sounds very strange how the belt can split into two and not break.

 

I will try to get some pics today after work and post them.