Cam chain failiure

[Broken Byzan]

Has anyone on here had this before? My car died last night on the side of the road, i have no compression,and the belt is intact. I noticed with the oil cap off that the inlet cam seems to have a delay when turning the engine over so i summise a problem there.

I am stripping her tomorrow,and wonder does anyone have a spare AEB cylinder head for sale??

I will update then

 

[joost]

Nightmare! Especially seeing as you've only just put the new lump in! Hope you get it sorted soon mate.

 

[rasA4]

Best of luck m8

 

[Broken Byzan]

Well the chain looks intact,and still in line, but i have absolutly no compression. So obviously summat touched. I aim to remover the head tomorrow to see what i can find inside.

With the divorce etc i could so do without this.....

 

[Broken Byzan]

All i could find was a small bit of cambelt cover inside the belt area,so i assume it somehow jamed the belt causing this damage

 

[PhilR]

Ouch that looks painful mate, you may remember that i took my whole head to bit when i had my turbo failure, luckily i had no bent valves

What you gonna do with thos pistons ? will they dress up ?

 

[Broken Byzan]

as much as i dare,i was gonna wedge the new head on when i noticed that the timing marks didnt line up on TDC. The key has sheared from the back of the bottom cam pulley. I am so glad i eventually found the reason for the blow up

 

[docurley]

Ouch... I don’t have a clue when working inside an engine so the fact you found the problem I tip my hat but a pity it happened to you right now.

 

[jcb]

f*ck me thats unlucky, even a broken cam belt usually only bends valves in one cyclinder.

 

[Broken Byzan]

Turned out to be a broken key off the bottom timing pulley. She is now running better than ever thanks to an AEB head etc. WWWOOOOHHOOO

Oh and i now have internet back.

 

[PhilR]

good to see tat the car is back up and running mate, it brought back nasty memories of mine, its great whn you get sorted though!

 

[Broken Byzan]

Worrying thing is,it had settled at 180 degrees out so didnt look to out of place until it came to re assembly time. I noticed TDC was showing on 2 and 3 instead of 1 and 4.
Shame it cost so much for the sake of a £25 part

 

[Markey]

Good to see its all back up and running my head comes off tomorrow to see how many bent valves i have