smokin5s Posted July 1, 2003 Report Share Posted July 1, 2003 A buddy of mine drives a '95 Chevy S10 4 banger. He was driving down the road at about 35 mph and he heard a loud thump. The motor died. It will turn over, but won't fire. Any ideas on what it could be? Any thoughts on where to start would be helpful. The tow truck guy thinks it's a compression issue... you can take that for what it's worth. Does anyone have a compression checker that I can borrow... I dont' know where mine is. All fluid levels look fine. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slow4now Posted July 1, 2003 Report Share Posted July 1, 2003 Does it "sound" like it has a compression issue? See if it's getting spark or fuel and then go from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave1647545494 Posted July 1, 2003 Report Share Posted July 1, 2003 timing chain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokin5s Posted July 1, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2003 I told him to put a screw driver against one of his wires and then ground it to see if he gets spark or not. Do you really think it would be a timing chain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave1647545494 Posted July 1, 2003 Report Share Posted July 1, 2003 not too manythings go thump right before it stops running. I guess it coulda blown out the distributor if it has one or tossed a rod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokin5s Posted July 9, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2003 well... it ended up being a busted timing chain.... about 4 hours later.... timing chain is replaced and the truck is running.... I'm surprised nothing else broke. I think he got lucky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave1647545494 Posted July 9, 2003 Report Share Posted July 9, 2003 told ya tongue.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokin5s Posted July 10, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 Originally posted by Gas,Grass,or Ass: told ya tongue.gif haha....that you did. Now if I only know what the heck caused it to break. Man, when we started it up, woo wee... exhast fumes comming out the intake and the exhast (build-up from before) man, that car stunk for about 5 min's, but now she seems to purr like a kitten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave1647545494 Posted July 10, 2003 Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 how many miles? timing chains go longer than timing belts but still require periodic replacement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokin5s Posted July 10, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 Originally posted by Gas,Grass,or Ass: how many miles? timing chains go longer than timing belts but still require periodic replacement. 95k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinner Posted July 10, 2003 Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 95k that all my neighbor has (now dont laugh) 262k miles on his s10 with the org. timing chain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokin5s Posted July 10, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 Originally posted by Yellow Cav.: 95k that all my neighbor has (now dont laugh) 262k miles on his s10 with the org. timing chain. I was thinking it was quite low. The chain tensioner on it was busted, so either that broke causing the chain to snap, or the chain snapping broke it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave1647545494 Posted July 10, 2003 Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 timing chains on older(70's) cars was like 50k maintenence things like that should get replaced before they break so ya don't get stranded Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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