Stokie_Dave
16-09-03, 10:46 AM
Before I start I am nowhere near mechanic status when it comes to cars :)
Right, my bird has a 1.2i Nova Merit+ and I was getting a lift back home. Pulled off the drive, drove about 5 metres, and the engine just dies and car jerks a bit as it does so as you'd expect when all power was lost. No strange engine noises or anything.
So we wheel it back onto the drive and dare to try and turn it over and all we get is the usual starting noise accompanied by a noticable tinkling kinda noise... we had a look under the bonnet and when you try and turn it over the top pulley wheel connected to the cam no doubt simply doesnt spin. It looks like it's trying but nothing happens. Everything else *seems* fine bar that top pulley. As I say I aint no mechanic so there might be other pulleys which aint spinning too but the top cam pulley deffo doesnt spin - you just get the tinkling noise like a light tickle kinda thing and yer normal starter motor noise. Checked the distributer and all that and it looks fine.
As a sidenote, for a while the engine had been making a strange noise as though a belt was too tight. Say this in ya head lol: wackawackawacka - it was like that kinda thing, along with normal engine noise... plus the car was also very jerky when driving, jerkyness being in time with said weird noise.
I believe my girlfriends dad sprayed some WD40 in the area where cam belts etc are, so is it likely this caused the belt to slip and now the engines a bit dead? :p If so, are the valves likely to be shafted or is it a 'safe' engine.
Mucho thanks to those who might be able to shine some light on the problem.
If worst comes, I'll buy the car for 100 and GTE it up :D
Right, my bird has a 1.2i Nova Merit+ and I was getting a lift back home. Pulled off the drive, drove about 5 metres, and the engine just dies and car jerks a bit as it does so as you'd expect when all power was lost. No strange engine noises or anything.
So we wheel it back onto the drive and dare to try and turn it over and all we get is the usual starting noise accompanied by a noticable tinkling kinda noise... we had a look under the bonnet and when you try and turn it over the top pulley wheel connected to the cam no doubt simply doesnt spin. It looks like it's trying but nothing happens. Everything else *seems* fine bar that top pulley. As I say I aint no mechanic so there might be other pulleys which aint spinning too but the top cam pulley deffo doesnt spin - you just get the tinkling noise like a light tickle kinda thing and yer normal starter motor noise. Checked the distributer and all that and it looks fine.
As a sidenote, for a while the engine had been making a strange noise as though a belt was too tight. Say this in ya head lol: wackawackawacka - it was like that kinda thing, along with normal engine noise... plus the car was also very jerky when driving, jerkyness being in time with said weird noise.
I believe my girlfriends dad sprayed some WD40 in the area where cam belts etc are, so is it likely this caused the belt to slip and now the engines a bit dead? :p If so, are the valves likely to be shafted or is it a 'safe' engine.
Mucho thanks to those who might be able to shine some light on the problem.
If worst comes, I'll buy the car for 100 and GTE it up :D