M2B4 LSD Gearbox - with free car attached! £300

Post by **indigolemon** » Thu May 09, 2013 2:52 pm

Sounds awfully like a lower pulley failure. If it was slightly loose before it may explain the noises too. Worth having a look and tightening it all back up? Could be as simple as that?

Post by **Merlin** » Thu May 09, 2013 3:04 pm

He posted a vid somewhere on the forum while the car was making a racket. In the vid the crank pulley seemed to be fine, no wobbles. But that was before this happened.

CrunchyAdams82 · Post by **CrunchyAdams82** » Thu May 09, 2013 3:10 pm

No, it's still intact; drive belts are all still on. But the lower pulley is wobbling & the power steering has stopped working. And the loud bang bang noise!

Dbo · Post by **Dbo** » Thu May 09, 2013 3:28 pm

when it was just the noise the pulley did have a off centre slight wobble to it.
but when you rested your hand on the rocker cover above cylinders 1&2 you could feel them being struck from underneath

i would say if we stripped it now to look the 2 beltside bottom end shells would be lose. feels like the sheel bolts have worked their way out and are striking as the cam is turning

this i think has elonggated the cam nose and has now probally destroyed the woodruf key and the pulley has now streached the belt so the power steering is just slipping

don't think just doing it up will fix as god knows what metal warf is now floating around the block

CrunchyAdams82 · Post by **CrunchyAdams82** » Thu May 09, 2013 3:28 pm

Ok, here we go.

http://i1356.photobucket.com/albums/q72 ... 7b53d0.mp4

CrunchyAdams82 · Post by **CrunchyAdams82** » Thu May 09, 2013 3:32 pm

Sorry about the jobby filming!

Dbo · Post by **Dbo** » Thu May 09, 2013 3:35 pm

omg

you can see how lose the belt is

it is streached to hell

you are a bravier man than i sticking your face that near to that pulley

you can hear the bottom end striking

CrunchyAdams82 · Post by **CrunchyAdams82** » Thu May 09, 2013 3:39 pm

Yeah, sounds like you were bang on there!

Dbo · Post by **Dbo** » Thu May 09, 2013 3:48 pm

CrunchyAdams82 wrote:Yeah, sounds like you were bang on there!

bang on

not funny m8

Post by **Merlin** » Thu May 09, 2013 3:53 pm

CrunchyAdams82 wrote:Ok, here we go.

http://i1356.photobucket.com/albums/q72 ... 7b53d0.mp4

That wasn't the same one I saw the other day. Yeah the pulley is wobbling more in that vid.