Timing belt chewed up/ covered in oil

[srgtlord]

It has been a few thousand miles since I replaced my timing belt. I go to inspect the belt last night and to my horror its covered in oil and part of it is chewed up. Now lets backtrack, I replaced the cam seal, the intermediate shaft seal and upgraded the valve cover gasket to the single peice rubber with studs. Needless to say the valve cover still leaked. My question is what happened? Any ideas? For starters I tensioned the belt too tight.

[burn_your_money]

Did you put a dot of silicon in the corners of the VC gasket on the timing belt end?

I'd check the IM shaft bearings and seal first.

[srgtlord]

I put a little bit more than a dot. I had the proper tension on the belt the first time, but  I spent soo much time trying to time my darn pump plus I replaced  the timing belt in below freezing weather I was about to push the car off a cliff. I think this is the final straw before I retire this POS. After I get paid Im putting my gasoholic cabriolet  on the road with it's 2bbl holley carb and 3speed slushbox.

[bajacalal]

I think you might have had it misaligned between the pulleys when you put it all back together and it snagged one of the covers when you started the engine.

[srgtlord]

Mind you the belt was fine 3 months ago the first time i checked. . I replaced the belt in march

[srgtlord]

          Well I just pulled apart the timing cover and found oil caked on near the crankshaft and near the tensioner. The belt actually seems to be tensioned correctly and there is a light coat on the timing belt. I guess I made it worse in my head .
        I noticed when I was turning the engine over by hand the timing belt was slightly riding side to side on the cam and injection pump. Maybe the pump shaft is slightly bent? The belt is lighty frayed in some areas and at one particular area there is a quarter of an inch wide chunk by about 2 inches long dangling from the belt.

[burn_your_money]

Good thing the Germans over-engineered just about everything on these engines

[srgtlord]

Is it possible that I had the belt off centered on one of the pullies and over time it wore out because of the error? Im still curious as to what happened to the belt.

[8v-of-fury]

Is it the outside edge that is chewed? Do you have the intermediate pulley that has got the raised edges.

[srgtlord]

It is the flat version of the pulley

[8v-of-fury]

Can we get pictures of how it is tracking on each pulley? It should make it easier to tell what is misaligned. My guess is on the pump bracket though as it is usually what the problem is.

[srgtlord]

From looking at it its definitely the pump bracket that needs adjusrting because the belt is tracking to the edge of the injection pump pulley and by the time it gets to the intermediate shaft it is riding off a tadbit.

[pointynoggin]

That has happened to me but not as bad as your situation.  There is a L shaped bracket that ties the pump mounting plate to the block and one of the bolt holes is a slot.  You have to loosen the bolt in the slotted hole and pull the bracket to make the pump pulley parallel to the others.  You can use a straight edge or just eyeball it then tighten it down and spin the crank over a few times to check if the belt walks over.

Easy as pie.

[srgtlord]

Do you happen to know which hole in the bracket is slotted?

[pointynoggin]

I'd have to look.  I can check tomorrow but I think you can spot it.  It is a ~3/4" flat bar bent 90degs with 1"  legs or so and is in front of the pump bolted to the pump bracket and the block.  I'll get out of bed and look.......ok it is bolted to the AC bracket vertical hole downward and to the pump plate horizontal to the pass side.  The vertical hole is a slot.  And the legs have a gusset. It is just in front of the pump a bit low.

I should learn to post picks.