Im sure some of you saw my pics of my car on the side of the road. I decided to post up my findings after working on the car.

Im putting in a replacement NV-T350 with a new clutch, polishing up the engine bay, changing timing belt/components. Im also installing an Underdrive Pulley, but theres a problem with that...
I ordered it (AF/X UDP) from Howell Automotive.. If any of you have dealt with them before..Im sorry. So whenever that gets here...it will go on.

On to pics...slow start.








After about 10 hours of working on it, I found out what actually happened. My timing belt didnt break, but it does have holes in it. I got the motor out, popped open the t-belt cover, and a bunch of BBs from a ball bearing fell out. Both the idler and tensioner pulleys failed. One got so hot it rainbowed. Thats what the noise coming from my belts was. Should have done something about it.



















Ha, the last pic is me standing in the engine bay looking for bolts.

95 Eclipse GS: 10.5:1, Crower 2's and MSII
186 WHP - 150 WTQ
14.697 @ 93.85 MPH......Gone, but not forgotten
99 420A Avenger: Given to my sister
99 GS OZ: Sold
03 Evo 8: Family Car with balls

im sorry to here that man. good luck on the repair and have fun with it. and patience too hah

Car Status: P0140 o2 circuit number bank 1 sensor 2 Cel. Ill fix it tomorow lol.

Estimated mileage on engine: 15,xxx

Pulley failed, eh?

Sucks.

______________________________
If a sentence found online has 35% misspellings or greater and includes at least two racially charged expletives, chances are it is a YouTube comment.

'95 Eclipse TurboGS (garage deco)
'95 TSi AWD (restoring a survivor)
'97 Talon ESi-T (poor impulse control)
'99 Eclipse RS-T (daily beater)
'13 Evo X (mostly stock)
'17 Sienna (Middle Aged Dad Mobile)



Factory Service Manuals: http://nawdu.de/files/

I've had that happen before, not fun but at least you shouldn't need to replace the head.

remember kids, ALWAYS replace your tensioner and idler pulleys when you do the timing belt, and do the timing belt on time.

Erik P.
Official 2GNT thread Hijacker
Some say that he's driven over more Covenant than he's shot, and that his grenades aren't where you'd expect them to be...
All we know is, He's not The Stig... But he is The Stig's Spartan cousin!

Yeah Ive had a LOT of naysayers say "Oh yeah man your head is definately trash". I was like well dont jump to that conclusion, the tensioner failed but kept the belt on the pulley, and I didnt hear any mechanical damage, so Im going to keep a positive attitude about it until I pull the head.

While the motor is out Im going to be taking parts off, such as the coolant tubes that go the the heater hoses, the lift eye, probably some suspension parts, and Im going to take them to work and sandblast them. Then I have a buddy who does powder coating and have them coated black.

Anyone have any recommendations of where to get a t-belt or a belt kit? Summit has a goodyear belt for $39, and the pulley kit from autozone is like $60.

95 Eclipse GS: 10.5:1, Crower 2's and MSII
186 WHP - 150 WTQ
14.697 @ 93.85 MPH......Gone, but not forgotten
99 420A Avenger: Given to my sister
99 GS OZ: Sold
03 Evo 8: Family Car with balls

Those will work fine. buy a new tensioner from satan to be safe as well

Erik P.
Official 2GNT thread Hijacker
Some say that he's driven over more Covenant than he's shot, and that his grenades aren't where you'd expect them to be...
All we know is, He's not The Stig... But he is The Stig's Spartan cousin!

I have not checked prices in a while, but Partsdianasur.com has some good prices for the 2gnt brethren. Check him out. He did not have the goodyear belts before and that's what I run too. but check him for the tensioner and pulleys...

I edited to the wiki!

I got a timing set from O'Rielly's when mine went out (Same sort of thing, belt started squaking like a MF, found a ball bearing lodged between my cam gear and timing cover, downed it right then). It's workin fine so far, I did get a different belt, didn't skimp there.

/>

'95 GS w/ t3/t4b
FMIC, diy piping & RFL BOV
MS2-Extra Fuel&Spark
50 lb/hr Holley injectors w/ 1:1 RRFPR
JE 8.8:1 dish w/ Hastings Rings
Eagle Rods w/ ARP bolts
ARP Head studs
Mild port/polish head
3" custom DP/cat section, 3" PIT catback
dual MBC - 12 psi / 20psi

Worked on the car for just a few hours today. I basically got the head ready to be pulled off. The last picture is the crank pulley puller I had to rent from autozone. I told the guy I needed a 3 jaw puller and he was like "Its either for a Chrysler or a Mitsubishi isnt it?" I was like "Umm...both". And he actually knew what I was talking about. More to come probably tomarrow.

95 Eclipse GS: 10.5:1, Crower 2's and MSII
186 WHP - 150 WTQ
14.697 @ 93.85 MPH......Gone, but not forgotten
99 420A Avenger: Given to my sister
99 GS OZ: Sold
03 Evo 8: Family Car with balls

Tough break man, but looks like you're well on your way to a speedy recovery (minus the UDP). Good luck finishing her up!

I contributed to the Wiki.

Thanks man. Yeah I really dont want to waste half the summer working on it, so Im trying to haul ass. Today I started pulling the motor/trans out of a 95 Talon ESi. The tranny from that is going in my car. One day at a time I guess...

95 Eclipse GS: 10.5:1, Crower 2's and MSII
186 WHP - 150 WTQ
14.697 @ 93.85 MPH......Gone, but not forgotten
99 420A Avenger: Given to my sister
99 GS OZ: Sold
03 Evo 8: Family Car with balls

lol well at least you have the harmonic tool. I pried mine off and broke it. And im still working on my rebuild since like febuary

Car Status: P0140 o2 circuit number bank 1 sensor 2 Cel. Ill fix it tomorow lol.

Estimated mileage on engine: 15,xxx

Hope it all goes back together nice for you man. my timing belt tensioner broke aswell (about two weeks ago), but it was the Bolt that holds the pully. took 9 or 10 valves and possibly my weisco pistons with it. hope yours dosent look to bad when you crack it open. from the lack of rockers laying in the head it should be fine though. i pulled my V.C. off and saw 9 rockers laying there and knew it was trash.

** Current status: 9 bent valves. and it only had 6,000 miles on it. i hope the replacement goes well. **

Lots of expensive parts, and still slow! Oh wait, it has to run to go fast.

My Wiki Page: www.2gnt.com/index.php?d=red96rs>

from 2g chat
* DarkOne joins 2GNT_Chat
‹DarkOne› .
‹DarkOne› wow... i'm drunk
‹DarkOne› at 9am.
‹DarkOne› on a saturday.

^^^that's what mine looks like. nice gouges in the cam as well

Erik P.
Official 2GNT thread Hijacker
Some say that he's driven over more Covenant than he's shot, and that his grenades aren't where you'd expect them to be...
All we know is, He's not The Stig... But he is The Stig's Spartan cousin!

Well at least someone is giving me hope that my head isnt trash. Im thinking if my valves arent too bad I may even port and polish while the head is off.
Anyway, I spent the day at my buddies house pulling the motor/trans out of a Talon he bought to part out. Heres the trans thats going in my car. It was filled with ATF-4 so thats a good sign.

95 Eclipse GS: 10.5:1, Crower 2's and MSII
186 WHP - 150 WTQ
14.697 @ 93.85 MPH......Gone, but not forgotten
99 420A Avenger: Given to my sister
99 GS OZ: Sold
03 Evo 8: Family Car with balls

Good news guys, I got the head off the block today, and I was pleasantly surprised. No valve damage at all. In fact, everything looked very clean. Newer pistons are in there too. Whoever worked on this car last also had enough sense to get the Fel-pro MLS head gasket.





I was going to port and polish while the head is off, but I figured I just want to be able to drive it again. My GF has been driving me around for a while now. Would you guys recommend copper spray on the head gasket or just the gasket? Its a Fel-pro MLS

95 Eclipse GS: 10.5:1, Crower 2's and MSII
186 WHP - 150 WTQ
14.697 @ 93.85 MPH......Gone, but not forgotten
99 420A Avenger: Given to my sister
99 GS OZ: Sold
03 Evo 8: Family Car with balls

Got the engine bay cleaned up pretty good. Changed the fuel filter. Got the head and block cleaned up ready for a new gasket. The engine is pretty much all together, just took some small parts off to paint. Just waiting on a clutch now.

95 Eclipse GS: 10.5:1, Crower 2's and MSII
186 WHP - 150 WTQ
14.697 @ 93.85 MPH......Gone, but not forgotten
99 420A Avenger: Given to my sister
99 GS OZ: Sold
03 Evo 8: Family Car with balls

Did you have that "new" head milled for the MLS HG? If you didn't you really should. Sealing after removal like that is usually a crap shoot. Would hate to see you lose a tbelt and go to all this trouble only to end up with a leaking HG a month later. /nailbiting

And what's with all the stumps in that one picture? You got something against trees, man? I've been told 1st gear in AW71 was a stump puller, but I had no idea!

I didnt have the head milled, but I have faith that it will be ok. It was fine before right? (knocks on every piece of wood in house)

Ha, those stumps are at my buddys house. Its firewood. And my brick had a nasty 1st gear in the AW. Never made enough power for it to fall out of my car and shoot down the block, but damn as soon as the Turbo spooled it would break both rear street slicks loose. So many people turned down a race because of that.

95 Eclipse GS: 10.5:1, Crower 2's and MSII
186 WHP - 150 WTQ
14.697 @ 93.85 MPH......Gone, but not forgotten
99 420A Avenger: Given to my sister
99 GS OZ: Sold
03 Evo 8: Family Car with balls

Quite a bit to update here. I posted a few times on a local forum, but havent here, so I have an ass-ton of pics to post.

Havent had much work time because of the rain. But I took the synchronizer cover off the old transmission. The one synchro is pretty much about to fail. Theres also springs missing from the internals. You can see one just chillin out. So Im glad Im getting a new one. And the other pics are of the paint. The tranny came out awesome. The motor I decided would look better black, and it does.

95 Eclipse GS: 10.5:1, Crower 2's and MSII
186 WHP - 150 WTQ
14.697 @ 93.85 MPH......Gone, but not forgotten
99 420A Avenger: Given to my sister
99 GS OZ: Sold
03 Evo 8: Family Car with balls

Haven't had any parts lately. So there was really no work to do. I just started recieving parts, so this weekend it will start to go back together.











Thats my F1 Racing Stage 1 clutch. I was slightly dissapointed the clutch was spray painted blue, and was SACHS flywheel, pressure plate, and probably disk too. Also, the air filter I got for $11 from ebay, and my before and after sandblasting and primer of header. The liquid stuff is the ceramic header coating Im going to have a buddy do for me.

95 Eclipse GS: 10.5:1, Crower 2's and MSII
186 WHP - 150 WTQ
14.697 @ 93.85 MPH......Gone, but not forgotten
99 420A Avenger: Given to my sister
99 GS OZ: Sold
03 Evo 8: Family Car with balls

Well its almost done. Today in a matter of like 7 hours I got it almost all the way back together. I ended up having to stop for the day because it got too dark to work. Right now theres one motor mount bolted down and a jack under the tranny. Theres also pics of the fogs I bought, to which I did the "foglight mod", and the headlights I wetsanded and buffed. The drivers side was bad but looks a lot better.

95 Eclipse GS: 10.5:1, Crower 2's and MSII
186 WHP - 150 WTQ
14.697 @ 93.85 MPH......Gone, but not forgotten
99 420A Avenger: Given to my sister
99 GS OZ: Sold
03 Evo 8: Family Car with balls

Originally posted by 740 turbo brick

______________________________
If a sentence found online has 35% misspellings or greater and includes at least two racially charged expletives, chances are it is a YouTube comment.

'95 Eclipse TurboGS (garage deco)
'95 TSi AWD (restoring a survivor)
'97 Talon ESi-T (poor impulse control)
'99 Eclipse RS-T (daily beater)
'13 Evo X (mostly stock)
'17 Sienna (Middle Aged Dad Mobile)



Factory Service Manuals: http://nawdu.de/files/

Oh, it wasnt me. It was the kid I bought the car from. He admitted to me, someone who was going to buy this car, that he raced it. He was telling me how he "powershifted" alot. He would just mash down the gas and slam it into the next gear all the time, no clutch. My 3rd gear would always grind, so it was shot from the time I got it. I should have taken some pics from the inside. The gear that drives the Diff had HUGE chunks taken out of it. I dont know what was keeping it together. Some people need to realize, a stock Eclipse GS is NOT a racecar..

95 Eclipse GS: 10.5:1, Crower 2's and MSII
186 WHP - 150 WTQ
14.697 @ 93.85 MPH......Gone, but not forgotten
99 420A Avenger: Given to my sister
99 GS OZ: Sold
03 Evo 8: Family Car with balls

.........................................................................................................................

Built. That's All...
.........................................................................................................................
www.monkeybuttpirate.com
.........................................................................................................................
2 Fingers of Scotch with a milk back... Stat!

People need to relize that stock 2gnt's are slow.

Faster than most ricer sohc hondas but still slow.


I noticed your allen wrench (is it?) in your tensioner is going through the backside of the tensioner in one of your pics. That's going to piss you off having to take that off, pull the pin out, and do it again. I didn't have a bench vise when i f-ed that up so i lowered the car on it.

Goodnight sweetheart...yes its time to go...bum bum bum bum bum...good night sweetheart yes I am one little a$$hole......bum bum bum bum....

Erik P.
Official 2GNT thread Hijacker
Some say that he's driven over more Covenant than he's shot, and that his grenades aren't where you'd expect them to be...
All we know is, He's not The Stig... But he is The Stig's Spartan cousin!

Well my car is back on the road. I was going to post up pics yesterday, but I didnt get around to it because I was in a car accident :071:

But anyway, it drives great now. The new tranny shifts like a dream, thanks in part to the $15 a quart oil I got from the dealer. The clutch grabs good, but the pedal has very little resistance. I thought it would slip it was so loose, but theres no slippage. I guess I expected there to be alot of pedal effort for a stage 1 clutch.

95 Eclipse GS: 10.5:1, Crower 2's and MSII
186 WHP - 150 WTQ
14.697 @ 93.85 MPH......Gone, but not forgotten
99 420A Avenger: Given to my sister
99 GS OZ: Sold
03 Evo 8: Family Car with balls

I contributed to the Wiki!
EVO IX - just a really expensive boost gauge and a K&N air filter
96 Eclipse RS -awaiting registration and inspection
95 Eclipse GS - parts car
Mods/Profile - http://www.2gnt.com/index.php?d=cs82685

Thank god, the wreck was not in my Eclipse or any DSM. It was in my GFs moms 2006 Buick Rendezvous. The car is probably totalled.

95 Eclipse GS: 10.5:1, Crower 2's and MSII
186 WHP - 150 WTQ
14.697 @ 93.85 MPH......Gone, but not forgotten
99 420A Avenger: Given to my sister
99 GS OZ: Sold
03 Evo 8: Family Car with balls

That sucks, I think my timing belt is about to break.