Timing belt fun

[dan at angband.org (Dan)]

So I'm out running errands on Sunday, coming down an
offramp.  Downshifted, then had no power. Managed to coast to a parking
lot, tried to restart, but it was pretty obious that I had no
compression.  Whipped out my trusty leatherman tool, pulled the upper
timing belt cover and found a shredded belt.  Luckily, I had stopped at a
garage sale not an hour earlier and bought a pretty decent mountain bike
for just 20 bucks.  Hopped on it, biked 10 miles home.  Shanghied my
neigbor to drive my Suburban, and towed 'er home.  Once we get it pushed
into the driveway, he remarks that he happens to have a spare timing belt
and tensioner that he never got around to installing on his Fox before he
sold it.  Some guys have all the luck, eh?  Now I hope that my valves
aren't bent, but no big deal if they are.  My local Pull-A-Part is usually
chock full of old VWs, I can get a complete head for $50.

Dan

-- 
If a guy tells me the probability of failure is  
1 in 10E5, I know he's full of crap. 

-- Richard P. Feynmann, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?"