Hello,
my Mrs was driving our 2008 3.2 yesterday when she said it went clunk and then the engine stopped, having experienced a couple of timing belt snaps in my time I thought it sounded like this could have occured.
Anyway as I found out its a chain on this model so I was hopeful it might not be this, not being very mechanical I just looked through the oil cap to see if I could see any damage and I can see a chain in there at the front of the engine, is this the timing chain? it would appear to still be on the gears but I can get my finger on and move the links up and down easily, hence is it supposed to be loose or would this indicate its probably snapped somewhere.
Its off to the garage tomorrow to be looked at but would be good to have an idea if that is the issue and then I can start to cancel xmas!
The car has done 225Kms so its high mileage but had full Mitsubishi history up until 200K, recently its been serviced by a local mechanic and it was overdue a recent service.
Cheers
my Mrs was driving our 2008 3.2 yesterday when she said it went clunk and then the engine stopped, having experienced a couple of timing belt snaps in my time I thought it sounded like this could have occured.
Anyway as I found out its a chain on this model so I was hopeful it might not be this, not being very mechanical I just looked through the oil cap to see if I could see any damage and I can see a chain in there at the front of the engine, is this the timing chain? it would appear to still be on the gears but I can get my finger on and move the links up and down easily, hence is it supposed to be loose or would this indicate its probably snapped somewhere.
Its off to the garage tomorrow to be looked at but would be good to have an idea if that is the issue and then I can start to cancel xmas!
The car has done 225Kms so its high mileage but had full Mitsubishi history up until 200K, recently its been serviced by a local mechanic and it was overdue a recent service.
Cheers
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