![]() ![]() I believe I still have the packaging and will give the part number, if I can find it or the receipt later(It is 4:00 am here and I do not want to wake up anyone else looking for them right now). We did end up using a 42 inch belt, as it was mentioned here earlier. Needless to say I was back on the road an hour after he got there (We had to make two trips to Autozone because we got too short of a belt the first time). Another mechanic I was talking had came up with the same idea and called me about it as I was reading this thread. I could not find any information about a bypass pulley for the Saturn Vue on the internet but in looking for it, I came across this thread. I tried for three more weeks to get someone out to my house to fix it at a price I could afford until a mechanic suggested I use a bypass pulley. I lost my job due to not being able to get to work so I could not afford to get it done there (did not even make $700.00 on my last check). It snapped the practically new belt that was in the system and it was going to cost me $700.00 to get a new compressor put on at the mechanics shop I went to. ![]() My AC compressor had been noisy since the day I got it in January, and it finally locked up on me in the middle of June. I do not know how old this thread is but I want to thank everyone here for the idea of putting on a shorter belt to bypass the AC compressor pulley. Honda makes good engines, we own a âKâ 4 cyl in a CRV, but they seem to have convinced the public that belt changes and valve adjustments are normal service expenses that everyone has, when they are not.Hi. My â97 Saturn SW2, with a chain, has over 160K miles, a friends Honda with a belt just cost him several hundred to have the belt changed at the 100K-mile service. The only timing chain issue I have ever heard about was some first year Ecotech engines, inadequate oiling, resolved quickly. The Honda still requires that the valves be adjusted, not cheep, and if not done or done incorrectly, very expensive! The Ecotech has automatic valve lash adjusters, as does every other GM engine produced in the last four decades. Another related issue is valve adjustment. I second the opinion that all engines should use a chain, even Honda has woken up to this and the K series four cyl engines now use a chain. I can confirm that the Ecotech uses a chain in all but the smallest of displacement, the 1.8L. It would suck if that exhaust valve clashed with the piston because the VTEC system kept it open a little to long. I can see the logic of why VTEC engines would be non-interference because of the difference in valve actuation. ![]() It also uses a timing belt versus a chain. A domestic engine that comes to mind is the 3.5L Chrysler developed while they were still Chrysler Corp. Honda is not exclusive in this type of engine design, as many other auto manufactors have non-interference engines. The engine will indeed simply stop operating as the Honda salesmen stated. Meaning, if the timing is lost within the engine (timing belt breaks) none of the internal parts, mainly the valves and pistons, will come into contact with each other. VTEC Engines are non-interference engines. Some owners of cars with timing belts are not so fortunate. FWIW, a few years ago, a Honda salesman told me that VTEC engines were designed so that if the belt broke, it would not affect any other moving parts in the engine: the engine would simply stop. ![]()
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