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Timing Belt Tension
1992 Talon Tsi AWD 5 spd 6 bolt 135k
I just bought this car maybe a month ago. Asked the owner when he last did timing belt, he said a year prior. Of course he had no documents to back it up. I visually inspected it before buying, belt looked new, and deflected very little. The other day before I took the car out for a drive, and I took the timing belt cover off and saw oil on the belt. It looked to be coming from the valve cover gasket. Put the cover back on and drove. Today, I took the VC and timing cover off (for a new gasket) and I notice the timing belt seems unusally loose. Deflects maybe 1/2" and some of the teeth arent even seated in the grooves. Also can be easily slid on the cam gears. I checked the dowel pins, they seem to be parallel like they should. What could have happened? Tensioner falure? It looks like if I tried starting the car the belt would skip over the cam gear teeth. Is it possible I got lucky and didnt break anything (the cams are lined up as they should be). The car ran fine when I last drove it...
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