Reddevil dies again.....

[douglas vincent]

It "was" fast.

I just paid to have it towed back to the shop.

Big odds I just bent the valves in all 4 cylinders. :'(

Was headed up towards Terwilleger Curves on I-5 South @ about 14 psi give or take in 4th, maybe 75 mph, when BANG a big ass muther fucking backfire and it died. This new motor has maybe 30 miles on it, if that. I was just breaking it in.

I made it to the shoulder (got lucky and made it to a pullout), and inspected the motor. Nothing obviously wrong. Tried turning it over and it sound like 0 compression.

Back at the shop I took off one valve cover and the driver side cams are still 100% lined up, so I suspect the crank skipped a BUNCH of teeth on the timing belt and OUCH.

So much for getting it back on the road for the West Coast Subaru Show 10 on August 16-17th. >:(

[scuzzy]

I thought our engines were non-interference?

[douglas vincent]

Not if its 2.5 with ej20r heads.

just pulled the covers. timing is skipped pretty bad. Found a bad timing idler shoulder, which caused the timing belt to want to climb off, which slowly shredded teh belt, which causes the timing jump.

Bent valves? Not sure yet... Probably, but you never know.

[douglas vincent]

And I have confirmed, bent valves in all cylinders. I took off the timing belt, set all the cams to "closed" and turned the crank by hand.

Not a lick of resistance, and not a wheeze to be heard.

[beatersubi]

'That sucks' would be an understatement. Hope the pistons aren't bad.

[douglas vincent]

Motor is out, pulling heads tommorrow. Have gaskets on will call, have heads from last motor, "should" be running Sunday.

[Legacy777]

How's the pistons?

That fucking sucks Doug!

I swear, you have the worst luck. But you can change a motor faster than a Nascar pit stop.