Following a rebuilt engine from a small company with in house engineering cnc machining, heads and turbo rebuilding facility.

 

Car was collected by the owner from said builder and around 60 miles later the following was discovered after an engine noise was heard and seem to be getting worse, the noise was semi metallic with a scrapping noise in time with engine speed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Culprit below.

 

It was caught under the crank sprocket. Real worry is the "rebuilt" engine water pump was not replaced, did not bode well for the rest of the rebuild, however the engine had not been damaged.

 

 

 

Jeff TT

Edited June 11, 201411 yr by JeffTT

That is just unbelievable and sickening to know a pro company would miss that bolt.

Is this the infamous idle pulley temporary retaining bolt?

very lucky that the belt didnt snap

Worrying to say the least.

To think, one minute you feel that you are leaving your pride and joy in errmmm safe hands, and the next minute you are close to disaster!

Can't see how they did not realise something was wrong the moment they fired her up before handing the car over.

Bit of luck there. Shameful work by the company though, judging by the fact the belt is still under tension I assume this is a bolt from the strip down etc, caught up during reassembly? Simply turning the engine by hand to check after installation of the belt would have revealed something wasn't right. Which is something to always do isn't it? I always have when I've done a cam belt.