Help! Have I destroyed my engine (348)?

YIKES! "Also throw in about $80 for a tube of Dow-Corning 730 if you like. "
Shan B say it isn't so......That's like a James Bond babe with cellulite!

 

Pucky! 348's are Aluminium. Good luck cutting off even a broken one. Only inspector Kluso would try that. This must be an April fool's. A mechanic can't be that stupid and even an owner could agree than repair only follows after proper diagnosis.

 

Yup, afraid so - actually it was slightly less ($70 or so). I agree it is pricey but I had several good mechanic friends (auto and airframe) swear that it's one of the best sealers on the market. It had interesting working properties. Just a tiny dab in the right places and so far my garage floor has remained spotless.

 

I would really like to understand this deal. Looking through gredinger's other posts, I see he states that his car is a 1993 ts. I had never heard of a 348 with a plastic timing belt cover, but if you look at the engine picture from the 348GT brochure, dated 11/93, the cover is black, and I suppose it could be plastic. I wouldn't know if or when they changed to plastic.

But, if the main timing belt cover on his car IS plastic, and it WAS broken before all this started, then this whole deal makes more sense. The cover could have been on crooked, a piece of the broken cover could have snagged the belt, his car wash could have caused water to run INSIDE the cover and cause havoc, any number of possibilities.

But the idea of chopping the old cover into pieces in order to remove it and reset the belt timing is mind blowing.

 

To clarifiy the confusion.

I have a 1991 348 TS with plastic timing belt covers.

Ferrari changed to this after initially starting production with the metal version in order to reduce noise (probably more like a cost reduction)

John

 

Whatever happened on this 348? Is it on the road again? How many $$ thousands to repair?

 

I personally know someone with 4 Ferraris and his logic is exactly the same. He'd rather let it go 5 to 10 years rather than be changing a belt based on age that often when each of his cars isn't driven that much.