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Geo said:
This has been going on for 50 years and now it's a problem.
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Customer says to the mechanic looking at destroyed engine - the timing belt has been going for 2 years and now it's problem.
 
Geo said:
Not a mechanic, are you?
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Well I know you wouldn't necessarily know it's going but behind the scenes they can degrade over time - especially the stupid Ford ecoboost ones etc that put a rubber timing belt into oil. They steadily degrade and one day bang and then it's all over red rover.
 
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Something funny about that - I know I'm right - again.
 
Thumbpicker said:
Well I know you wouldn't necessarily know it's going but behind the scenes they can degrade over time - especially the stupid Ford ecoboost ones etc that put a rubber timing belt into oil. They steadily degrade and one day bang and then it's all over red rover.
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Having a belt in the engine oil is actually an advantage as long as the belt is engineered to be in oil.
 
Thumbpicker said:
Not a mechanic are you?
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Actually, I did failure analysis and warranty application testing for the American Honda Motor Co. for ten years.

Honda has been using internal timing belts in their General Purpose Engines for about 30 years now.
 
Geo said:
Actually, I did failure analysis and warranty application testing for the American Honda Motor Co. for ten years.

Honda has been using internal timing belts in their General Purpose Engines for about 30 years now.
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You can't design away rubber reacting with oil and especially hot contaminated engine oil. Also rubber belts are not always 100% uniform in terms of QA.

Not all manufacturers have decided to subject the consumer to wet timing belts because some of them have ethics.
 
Thumbpicker said:
You can't design away rubber reacting with oil and especially hot contaminated engine oil. Also rubber belts are not always 100% uniform in terms of QA.
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Ever hear of Kevlar?

When I asked the Honda engineers how long the belt would last in the Honda Engines, they told me, longer than the piston rings.
 
Even framing a question to AI in a positive way you get a very mixed answer. I'm not wrong at all.

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Laugh all you like - they fail and they cost a fortune when you have to replace them as part of scheduled servicing.

You can buy a car with one. I never would.
 
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