[blackbird]

My timing belt is wearing out early.
I have crower stage 2 (264 equivalent) cams with there springs and retainers. I have put 10,000 miles on the car and my teeth on the timing belt are falling off. I have checked my cams and they rotate freely. I have a new tenisoner and pulley on the car. The car runs great I just did a leak down on the car and all is well.Is it just that I need a stronger belt because of the cams?

 

[brian_k03]

talk to mk4umha
he also had this problem

a stonger belt may end up breaking something else.

 

[carchitect]

I would throughly inspect your cam gears. How about the plate washer in front of your crank timing gear ? Is it facing the right way. Switch out your cam gears with stock ones and a new belt and inspect. The greddy or Power enterprise timing belt is also made of rubber. It does use a silicone outer lining to help reduce belt deflection but if you have something tearing up your belt you will need to resolve that problem before you installing new parts.

Joe.

 

[mk4umha]

If you had the HKS Cam Gears for 30k+ miles, i'm sure they are warped by now. That's what caused my timing belt to die prematurely after a timing belt change. I also have the same upgrades to the valve train on my car, HKS 264s with crower springs and retainers.

*edit**
i replaced the HKS cam gears with Stock ones.

 

[blackbird]

I have 50k in the HKS cam gears... they WARP that a peace of CRAP... is this common???

If you had the HKS Cam Gears for 30k+ miles, i'm sure they are warped by now. That's what caused my timing belt to die prematurely after a timing belt change. I also have the same upgrades to the valve train on my car, HKS 264s with crower springs and retainers.

*edit**
i replaced the HKS cam gears with Stock ones.

 

[mk4umha]

i think so, LOL, swap it out with stock cam gears, you dont need adjustable cam gears with cams anyhow.

 

[BLKMGK]

They're aluminum, they wear. I have a set in excellent condition not installed but I'm not sure they will go on with my head\cams. <shrug>

 

[BFR1992T]

if your cams rotate freely you have much bigger problems...

 

[Supradedupra]

^^^lmao

 

[blackbird]

I ment smooth rotation.

if your cams rotate freely you have much bigger problems...