bottom end bummer!!!

[aaronng]

Ahhh. I see. But still, what made the key come off? Did the pulley lose a chunk, thus loosening the key? Or was the key slowly wiggled out through vibrations over the thousands of kms driven? I'd still be worried since the key is able to fall out of a perfectly good pulley then.......

[dwn_boi]

yea i dunno if he put a new pully in or not, but when i go and get my car serviced i'll ask him. i think he put a new pully in, well im hoping lol!! i got it towed at about 12 and he had it out at 4pm

but yaa he told me that he's actually had 2 other preludes like mine with the same thing in the past month or something! i was like wtf, i know personally i havnt touched anything in the enine bay but when he was pullingout my power steering pump he noticed that some one had already fiddled with it before as it had black paint around the nozzel.

also there was a bolt that holds in your pump right, and that bolt was loose, like i'm talking not even put through as far as the thread!!!! so hmmm looks like sumones done dodgy repairs!!

If you look closely at the photo all the splines on the inside of the pulley hole are worn off meaning that the key fell out then the crankshaft snout was spinning freely inside the pulley causing the splines to be worn away. I hope he put on a new pulley if he reused that one in the photo IT'S GOING TO FALL OFF AGAIN because there are no splines left to hold it in place without spinning.

also when u have a close look you can see it is quite rusty so this could have lead to the key coming loose as well. i dunno how this happened, my car has 160km so its getting older but still this shouldnt of happend!! especially in a honda!! and bottom end damage, thats the last thing i expect from a motor like mine!

[willyumx]

hey my crankshaft pulley warped one day and i ended up with it sounding like it was supercharged!! cost me heaps to fix it coz the mechanic had to drill out the pulley bolt and grind in a new thread...

my mates 4th gen si prelude makes that sound ! very very very rarely but sometimes when its idling, it'll just all of a sudden make that noise and then stop n everything would be back to normal . could they be the same problem ?

[dwn_boi]

my mates 4th gen si prelude makes that sound ! very very very rarely but sometimes when its idling, it'll just all of a sudden make that noise and then stop n everything would be back to normal . could they be the same problem ?

naah i doub it would b the same thing? do the revs jump up at all when it make the noise?

[fusionprelude]

this pretty much just happened to my h23 i hav no compression in cylinder 2 it made crunching noises bad im not lookin for a h22a and pullin apart the h23 to see wat the prob is its happened to a few of us prelude drivers as ive heard

[willyumx]

naah i doub it would b the same thing? do the revs jump up at all when it make the noise?

nah it dosent, it revs like its normal just with an addition to that supercharger sound

[Joee]

Woahh Nikki thats tough........ How many km's did the engine have on it?

[dwn_boi]

Woahh Nikki thats tough........ How many km's did the engine have on it?

it was due for 160km service so she has quit a frew kms. he said its just one of those things that can happen, like it wasnt caused y thrashing her lol!

its been 2 weeks now and shes running perfect so he did a awsome job

[ders5]

This just happened to my 1992 Prelude Si. Same thing with the ticking noise then the pulley fell out. My regular mechanic said that there was nothing he could do to fix it as apparently someone did some dodgy repairs on the crankshaft before I bought the car.

Does anyone know of a good Prelude mechanic in Adelaide that could fix it the same way they fixed dwn_boi's?

[dwn_boi]

sorry to hear that ders5 yaa my mechanic sed lucky i didnt drive it anymore otherwise i'd have to rebuild! hopefully you can find a good mechanic, try to find sumone that specialises in hondas theyll b able to help you better