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10/05/2017 at 15:13 • Filed to: None
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Looking at a used frontier with a vg series 6 cylinder at a garage, and they mention it was a client’s truck, the timing belt went and they didn’t want to pay. The shop took it, fixed it, and is selling it. As I understand, the vg is an interference engine, so if that belt went so did a whole lot else. Is this correct? If so, keep looking?
UPDATE: engine smoking, smelled liked burning oil. Nope
KevlarRx7
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10/05/2017 at 15:17 |
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If it is a interference engine, your pistons and valves are buggered, non interference generally means the pistons and the valves can’t make contact, so it’d be a case of resetting timing and fitting a new belt.
But since it’s a garage that has it, I’d bet it’s a interference engine, hence why they haven’t fitted a new belt and sold it already.
TheTurbochargedSquirrel
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10/05/2017 at 15:21 |
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You can get lucky sometimes and the piston and the valves might have managed to avoid each other but interference engines typically do a lot of internal damage when the timing belt goes.
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10/05/2017 at 15:22 |
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Sometimes you get away with only a few bent valves needing replacement. It doesnt always mean disaster necessarily.