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[albitz]

Superb mate.Sorted at long last.
If your confident all is well,it would be worth changing the belt & tensioners,and making sure the timing is absolutely perfect.
Well done.

[tunnie]

Fantastic news        

How on earth did the timing slip though? 

Bet you are chuffed now though

[jonny2112]

Superb mate.Sorted at long last.
If your confident all is well,it would be worth changing the belt & tensioners,and making sure the timing is absolutely perfect.
Well done.

Cheers Albs, but I can't really take any of the credit - it was all OOF 
The only thing is that I now know a lot more than I did before - hopefully that's a good thing 

Fantastic news        

How on earth did the timing slip though? 

Bet you are chuffed now though

Thanks Mark, and it must have been that stupid washer   
Can't believe it, but well chuffed now 

[Andy H]

I wonder where it is now? Hiding inside the aux belt pulley perhaps

[Steve B]

well i thought you were gonne beat  "so what have you done to your car today"

[tunnie]

I wonder where it is now? Hiding inside the aux belt pulley perhaps

That a good point, full strip down maybe in order, make sure it's not going to cause a problem again.

[albitz]

I did something not that dissimilar with a foreign object and a cambelt a long time ago. I lost the oil pressure on my Chevette HS and being young and gung ho,I dived in and completely stripped the engine and then commenced on a full rebuild,which ended up taking severl months,mostly due to VX dealer constantly ordering in the wrong parts,and partly due to the fact I had never rebuilt an engine in my life.
Eventually,just before Christmas I got it all back together and running nicely,apart from a not too serious leak from the rad.
Swmbo was eager to get taken to a supermarket 10 miles away to do Christmas shopping,so of we went. On the way back the engine started to get pretty hot,so worried about the very expensive alloy head (over £1000 30 years ago !) I pulled into a layby to let it cool down a bit and then add coolant.
I got a bit impatient and decided to take the rad cap off to help it cool down quicker.The cap shot up,hit the underside of the bonnet and came back down and jammed between the cam pulleys,instanly slicing through the brand new cambelt.
I left the car where it was all over Christmas,which wasnt the happiest,due to self disgust and also worry about the car.
Towed it back home and took the head off again.Two new inlet valves and a new cambelt required,and all was well.

[jonny2112]

well i thought you were gonne beat  "so what have you done to your car today"

Me too 

I wonder where it is now? Hiding inside the aux belt pulley perhaps

There was one found apparently on my drive. I wasn't aware at the time, but ultimately I didn't fully realise how it could cause any problems. If you remember, I initially looked for it as I thought it may be stuck somewhere, thereby causing the rattle. Not for a second did I think about the belt slipping as a result, and not having been at the timing during the work undertaken, I didn't appreciate the significance 

[v6man54deg Geffd]

I was spot on then, have seen this problem loads of times even snapped up the odd bargain on ebay with same fault, all depends on how long / hard the engine.has run in this condition whether or not damage occurs, glad u got it sorted

[jonny2112]

I was spot on then, have seen this problem loads of times even snapped up the odd bargain on ebay with same fault, all depends on how long / hard the engine.has run in this condition whether or not damage occurs, glad u got it sorted

Yes mate, thanks very much 
I should have spotted it sooner, but hey ho 

[dbug]

What a saga - glad you're sorted now mate.  Full marks to v6man54deg

[jonny2112]

What a saga - glad you're sorted now mate.  Full marks to v6man54deg

 

[robson]

Can we all stop looking for your post on this subject it was the first thing I looked at evertime I switched on and I am sure a lot of others did the same. So glad you got there in the end and I am sure that the support you got from OOF helped you to press on and get a good conclussion.