Interference or Non-Interference? look here!

Have a question about whether your car is an Interference or N-I engine?

Go to Autozone and look up the belt! If the engine is Interference it will
tell you "Interference Application".

Hachiroku ãƒ?ãƒ?ãƒ*ク wrote:[color=blue]
> Have a question about whether your car is an Interference or N-I engine?
>
> Go to Autozone and look up the belt! If the engine is Interference it will
> tell you "Interference Application".[/color]

Well spotted. It correctly identifies mine as NI. Doesnt explain how
come ive seen a few written-off engines from belt failures though ??!!

"Coyoteboy" <coyoteboyuk@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hachiroku ãƒ?ãƒ?ãƒ*ク wrote:[color=blue]
> Have a question about whether your car is an Interference or N-I engine?
>
> Go to Autozone and look up the belt! If the engine is Interference it will
> tell you "Interference Application".[/color]

Well spotted. It correctly identifies mine as NI. Doesnt explain how
come ive seen a few written-off engines from belt failures though ??!!


And, uh, how FAST were your 'friends' going when they blew the belt?

Even in a N-I engine, at high RiPpeMS there can be 'valve-float' that can
still cause the pistons to slam into the valves...

Or, so I have been told.

Hachiroku ???? <Trueno@AE86.gts> wrote:

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>
>Go to Autozone and look up the belt! If the engine is Interference it will
>tell you "Interference Application".[/color]
Tried that; no joy. Couldn't find the note anyplace on the page.
However, this might do it:

[url]http://www.theautoshop.com/timing.html#TOYOTA[/url]

asterisk (*) is interference

"Derald" <derald@invalid.net> wrote in message news:E0yoh.12105$X72.9476@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...[color=blue]
> Hachiroku ???? <Trueno@AE86.gts> wrote:
>
>[color=green]
>>
>>Go to Autozone and look up the belt! If the engine is Interference it will
>>tell you "Interference Application".[/color]
> Tried that; no joy. Couldn't find the note anyplace on the page.
> However, this might do it:
>
> [url]http://www.theautoshop.com/timing.html#TOYOTA[/url]
>
> asterisk (*) is interference
>[/color]


Odd that that place claims that Toyota does not give a maintenance interval for at least 6 engines.

"Danny G." <dandog@pacbell.net> wrote:
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>Odd that that place claims that Toyota does not give a maintenance interval for at least 6 engines[/color]
Well, I dunno. The owner's manual for my old v6 Camry wagon is not
exactly a model of clarity but there remains the question of how much
faith to give to third-party sources. FWIW, in the Gates online catalog,
interference applications are flagged, in red.
--
Derald