Engine seized

dmbaerry · Post by **dmbaerry** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 1:18 pm

I think I had a bearing go bad and the engine is seized... any good fiat mechanics in the Burlington NC area????????????

So Cal Mark · Post by **So Cal Mark** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:53 pm

what makes you think a bearing failed?

dmbaerry · Post by **dmbaerry** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:28 am

I am just guessing.. I really have no idea.. was driving to work yeterday, and about 10 minutes in the engine just seized up.
no noise, or overheating or nothing just stalled out and then was seized up tight...

kmead · Post by **kmead** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:38 am

I would suspect a broken timing belt and the now out of time Auxiliary shaft fuel pump lobe is interfering with a crankshaft counterweight.

Have a look into your timing belt upper cover to see if the belt has broken or looks to be missing blocks or has broken.

Try putting it in fifth and rocking the car backwards a few inches to spin the crank away from the fuel pump lobe on the aux shaft. Don't force it and just rock the car back a few inches no more.

Don't try and force anything as you can crack the block, break the aux shaft and the crank.

dmbaerry · Post by **dmbaerry** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 9:21 am

Ok.. I will try... better than selling the car i guess...

giuliot60 · Post by **giuliot60** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 12:40 pm

Didn't you just buy the car? Good luck and let us know what happened.

dmbaerry · Post by **dmbaerry** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:47 pm

giuliot60 wrote:Didn't you just buy the car? Good luck and let us know what happened.

yep... less than a month... pretty heart broke at this point...

kmead · Post by **kmead** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 3:17 pm

All is not lost, I'd its just the timing belt, bottle is likely wrong with it aside from resetting the timing and putting a new belt on. Yours is a non interference engine so the valves are not bent and nothing else should be wrong if it's just the belt that failed.

Of course if it was a more catastrophic failure, it could be time for a new engine. As the bodies don't last as long as the engines generally do, you may be able to come across a good used one from another forum member.

giuliot60 · Post by **giuliot60** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 5:35 pm

Hopefully it's just the timing belt. Let us know.

mdrburchette · Post by **mdrburchette** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:55 am

Would the 82 have a problem with the aux shaft hitting the rod? There is a guy in Winston-Salem that is a Fiat mechanic. If you need his information, pm me. He's the only one other than my husband or me that I will let work on my Fiats.

rlux4 · Post by **rlux4** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 1:01 pm

Yes, the 82 can have a problem with the aux. shaft lobe hitting the rod bolt.
Don't ask me how I know.

Ron

DRHSMITH · Post by **DRHSMITH** » Sat Aug 11, 2012 3:08 pm

if timgin belt wasnt tight enough u could have slipped a tooth that happened to me once remove belt and try rolling cams crank and aux oil shaft lightly if everything turns unitl a light contact then u know engine is ok and timing messed up

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