Good News, and some Tragedy Averted.
This weekend, I was able to install my new (used) Doniol Boost/EGT gage. That wwas the good news,.. the gage is AWESOME. Altho I do have a questin about it that Ill ask on the Doniol gage thread...
anyhoo, to the tragedy aversion..
Mcnally is already spoken for, its going free to a good home of a friend. I couldnt sell it. he wanted it, its his.
After the Cinci TDI GTG when I slowed down from the freeway I noticed much more lifter ticking than the single tick I have had for the last year or two.
I carry a cam & lifters on the shelf... they got replaced after checking my oil level and finding it spot on where it belongs.
in the process of doing that job, I was unable to get the pump pin to seat fully into the pump, and it was a bit wobbly in there where it could go into. looking thru the pulley with a mirror didn't look right. so I pulled the pump pulley.
I found this..
when taking the pulley off, I heard the tinking of metal chunks and once it got close to coming off, I could hear them fall... into the timing belt path.. yippeee..
after much disassembly, I found these pretty little nuggets, whats left of the broken casting pieces after about 40k of wear from the last timing belt job.
also noted was the wear marks on the inside of the pulley.
In addition to the issues above, the Crank seal was leaking, and the large roller had a 60k bearing in it.
these two things made me decide to just replace the TB system as well as the crank seal. IF the roller was replaced at 102k like the PO told me it was, it had 40k on it, either way, it was manufactured in 2005 some time, so it was almost due by years anyways.
guess I got lucky, and am VERY glad I pay attention to the sounds my car makes.
