2005 Aveo 5-spd sedan - timing belt broke - being repaired

[MetroMPG]

Wow - lucky you.

You should invite the small crew to come back next week and help with the engine rebuild too

[Daox]

Haha, while I greatly appreciate the help with the house, the engine work is a different story. It is my territory, and I don't need or want help.

[oscare003]

i feel the same way. my buddies will just reccomend and talk, talk, talk. lol very distracting
this is me while working on cars <-- dont bother me lol or else

[serega12]

LOL... and the thing is - if there will be 20 friends helping - there probably will be 25 different opinions... all very different from each other...

[Daox]

Another small update. (Sensing a pattern yet?) I don't get much time to work on stuff, so I just gotta try to do a little each night.

I got the engine up on the stand last night.





Then flipped it over and removed the oil pan. And yes, there were bits of piston chunks here and there.




Again, if anyone one wants pics of engine components let me know. I'll be posting lots of pics along the way.

[trempus]

the water pump is part of the block itself?

[Daox]

It looks like the pump assembly slides into a pocket in the block. I'll get more pics when I replace it.

[serega12]

So I take it you decided on rebuild over swap?

[reddemonx92]

Did you ever figure out what caused the piston and housing to break?

[Daox]

So I take it you decided on rebuild over swap?

Yeah, I think I have my mind made up on the rebuild. Still gotta get things totally apart and checked out to make sure there isn't more damage I don't know about to the block or something critical.

Did you ever figure out what caused the piston and housing to break?

I'm guessing its what rabbit said, the tensioner failed. This caused the timing belt to slip/jump and the valves ended up smashing into the piston.