b_melli

Hi All,

Just curious if the same thing ever happened to any of you:
I had the timing belt and water pump replaced about 20k ago on my 92 4runner. The new belt
got distroyed within 20k because a pin
worked itself loose from the water pump and started chewing on the belt.
I'm just curious if that could be attributed to poor installation, or part failure.

thanks,

bruno.

lunatic14r

never seen it happen but i hope the fix it for free. the only pin i recall would be the one for the tensioner.

rimpainter.com

Where did you have it done? Part of installing the water pump and timing belt should be a quick inpection of the surrounding parts. I would get the shops take on things.

b_melli

Unfortunately my truck failed while I was up in the mountain, 2 hours from home.
I had a friend help me tow it to a local mechanic. The mechanic was very careful not to point fingers and pretty much told me that I'd be out of luck trying to get the original shop to foot the bill if they didn't want to.

So at this point I'm just curious. Luckily
the belt failed in a way that didn't cause
head damage.

bruno.

rimpainter.com

Timing belts are go/no go items. (Well, they can skip teeth)

You engine is non-intrusive, which is what saved you. Otherwise you would have a pandora's box filled with valve train parts right now.

Hope everything works out for you.