Originally Posted by
bigdare23
This christmas sucked ass for me!!! I can actually say this was the worse Christmas I every had!
So around 11pm on Christmas Eve I left to go visit my family in Columbus. So once I get out of Atlanta near Union City, I start to hear knocking. At first I thought my cai sucked up some water since it was storming, so I took the Union City exit and stopped at the Shell gas station. I popped the hood and bam, my fucking timing belt is chewed up. So I tried calling people from the Squad and IA. Luckily, Tony picked up. He stated he had spare belt and the tools need to swap it out. So he comes over and tries to help, but his impact wasn't strong enough to break the crank pully bolt. So we call Ant and he made a round to his job to pick up tools to try, but they failed out breaking the damn bolt. So after trying to find a place that was open on Christmas day we decided to call it quits and get it towed back to my apartment. So I didn't get home until 5am Christmas morning. Then I slept until 5pm because I was so damn tired and missed all of my possible rides down to visit my family. So I got the chance to experience my first Christmas by myself due to a timing belt (now I truly know how soldier feel when they are overseas and that feeling sux).
So friday come around, luckily my father was willing to rent a trailer and pick my car up. So he picked my car up and took it to my mechanic in Columbus. If you ever removed the timing cover you will notice that the bolts are different, and there's 6 bolts (I believe) holding it on. SO for some reason, I had an extra timing cover bolt inside of my timing cover rubbing against the belt causing it to rip. The crazy thing about it was, he just replaced my exhaust cam, installed my cam gears, and cut my valve cover last weekend. I was looking over his shoulder the hold time, to get some knowledge (so I wont have to get someone else to do it again) and I didn't see him do anything wrong. The bad part about getting stuff done at his house is he has friends coming over constantly, so while we wasn't looking someone might of dropped one in the timing cover on purpose?!? I know he didn't do it, since he's proud of hell of my motor since he did the swap and all the work on it and brags about it all the time. So I don't know what to think. Anyways, all of this is behide me now, so it's time to start moving forward to 2009
I hope everyone had a better Christmas than mines!!! Also, I want to thank Ant and Tony for coming out and trying to help your boy on Christmas Eve/Day. Thanks again homies!!! I owe ya big times!!! Also to everyone else who picked up the phone (answered texts) and tried to call around to find me help. Thanks you too!