4AGE V Belt Diagram

[DrTiTus]

EZ Dogs (wait, wrong forum! ),

I snapped my fan belt/v belt last night after some serious neglect/ignorance of squealing.

Now, I remember looking at the belt yesterday lunchtime, and thinking, "ooh, that looks a bit strange", due to the way it wound itself around the 3 (?) pulleys.

I found this diagram for a 4AGZE:



which isn't quite suitable for me, but I was wondering if any of you had the relevant diagram for a 4AGE, or whether one of you might be so kind as to take a look at your 4AGE belt, and either make a diagram in Paint, or take a photo of it?

It would be _much_ appreciated!

Also, for what its worth - by the time I got off the motorway and stop somewhere sane, my car was overheating something chronic - what is the likely damage? Is my car gonna be fried, or has it still got some of its 9 lives left?

Thanks to anyone who can help...

[lotstodo]

[gordon77]

you need to check for a blown head gasget, thats the most likley thing to have happened (lack of water)

[DrTiTus]

Awesome, thanks lotstodo!

And whats the easiest way to check for a blown head gasket?

At this point, I just intend to put the belt on, and try start the car, and if it runs, take it for a spin...

If my head gasket *is* blown, what are the sorts of signs I'd be looking for?

[gordon77]

wait till the car is cold, take the radiator cap off, turn car on and wait for it to warm up and the thermostat to open. if there are bubbles coming up to the surface of the water inside the radiator then you need to take it to a mechanic or find someone with a 'tee-kay' tester to confirm bhg. there also may be exesive steam coming out your muffler

note - water system must be filled up (so you can see the bubbles)

if you go and take your car for a spin and its got a bhg you wil make the problem worse.

anyone feel free to correct me.

[DrTiTus]

Thanks bro

*fingers crossed*

If it _is_ a BHG, I think I'll just throw the car away

[matt dunn]

Correct for most of them,

But the early bluetops etc do not usually have the idler pulley.

[Santa'sBoostinSleigh]

If it _is_ a BHG, I think I'll just throw the car away

can i have it then? i dont care if its BHG as long as its legal and cheap!

[DrTiTus]

Well I put the new belt on (took all of 5 minutes, why could I not have done that on TUESDAY rasafasa~), and the engine appears to run sweet.

However, there are fine bubbles coming up into the radiator, so I dare say it's a BHG (my completely amateur opinion of course).

I drove it home from where I had it, and the temperature didn't rise above half (normal), nor did I notice any performance difference. I gave it a bit of a run to see if the temperature was going to go beserk anytime soon, but it didn't. I imagine that the car is still going to be functional as long as I don't drive it all the way to Auckland or something without checking water levels.

So my options at this point are:

a) take it to some dude, get charged $500-$700+ to replace the head gasket/skim the head and get my car back with no bubbles

b) do it myself, potentially destroy my engine (first time replacing a head gasket y0!), and potentially still have the bubbles, or make problem worse

c) keep driving it round, making sure I monitor the temperature, and keep topping up the water should the need arise - until it eventually dies


So, Santa'sBoostinSleigh, with the above in mind, would you still be interested in it? I'm more interested in a motorbike these days, so selling it would be wise...

I can take photos of it if you want to get a better idea of what it'd be worth to you...

[Santa'sBoostinSleigh]

depends how much you want for it

im after a car to turn into my racecar
i want a 2 door, that has live plates
and if i can drive it back to my place ('Naki) then its even better!
flick some pics and details my way acotter@maxnet.co.nz

chur
Andrew

[neo]

b) do it myself, potentially destroy my engine (first time replacing a head gasket y0!), and potentially still have the bubbles, or make problem worse

Ya gotta learn some how... If you own a decent 1/2 socket set and a set of ring and open ended spanners, know how to undo stuff and can scrap things with a razer blade, it'll be all good.

...a decent set of sockets is not a set missing 3 with one broken and a rachet that only goes in one direction!...

[solberg Fan]

How long did you drive it with out the fan belt on? Was the radiator empty at all? Also how far up the gauge did it get??

[DrTiTus]

I drove it for about 5 minutes - I stopped once I heard the noise like a jug boiling...

The radiator, after all that, was pretty empty, but wasn't before the incident.

I didn't check the gauge - it was at night, and I was panicking about whether my car would make it up the hill, thinking it was going to just run out of battery juice... so I was only watching the revs, where I was going, and listening to the noises...

I took it for a longer run yesterday, to see if the temperature is playing up now, and its not. I also checked the radiator water levels to see if it was using water at a drastic rate, and it wasn't.

-shrug-