Originally Posted by Koenig928

Yes it failed while cranking. I remember turning the key over to start it, but for whatever reason I didn't engage the starter long enough (which is unusual for me). So I hit the starter a second time and it never fired up, have no doubt that's when the crank ate the teeth at that point. Perhaps there was a bit more pressure/tension/whatever on that driver cam after the missed start, combined with other missing teeth it's possible the timing could have been slightly off, and when the engine 'hiccuped" on the missed start it bent the cam snout, I don't know. I gotta dig more into it.

There was nothing jammed or obstructing the t-belt circuit, but based on what I saw on teardown, I think the sharp edges on the cam and oil gears shortened the t-belt's life rapidly. You can almost cut your finger running it across the gear ridges. Looking closely at the remaining t-belt teeth, almost all of them are at some stage of being cut off. Scary.