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By teal_dx
- Thu May 24, 2007 8:51 pm #8742 I did something dumber once... I didn't know about the Woodruff Key having to be in the Crank Pulley. I even found the "key" (really a tiny rectangle piece of petal) on the ground when I was cleaning up.

About 6 months later I was doing about 60 mph, my battery light came on, and my engine started to vibrate. I let off the gas and a few seconds later I hear a bang up front and something hitting the underside of my car.

I thought I sent a rod through the block, but in my mirror I saw something round rolling off to the side of the road.

Stopped, popped the hood expecting to see a hole in my block, and everything looked normal! Except there were no alternator or powersteering belts. And no crank pulley! It had came loose, vibrated the belts off (setting the battery light off) and then the bolt vibrated the rest of the way out. I walked back a good 1/4 mi along the highway in rush hour looking for that damn pulley, never found it :x
I had to drive home with no alternator or power steering, 20+ miles on just the battery :lol:

about 1/4 mi from my house it was getting weak and the gauges stopped working. I had the radio off to save juice too. I limped it into the driveway and the battery was done.
I charged it and it lasted until the next winter- WooT for OEM Honda Batteries
:woot:
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By ChicagoMike
- Thu May 24, 2007 9:29 pm #8745
teal_dx wrote:I did something dumber once... I didn't know about the Woodruff Key having to be in the Crank Pulley. I even found the "key" (really a tiny rectangle piece of petal) on the ground when I was cleaning up.

About 6 months later I was doing about 60 mph, my battery light came on, and my engine started to vibrate. I let off the gas and a few seconds later I hear a bang up front and something hitting the underside of my car.

I thought I sent a rod through the block, but in my mirror I saw something round rolling off to the side of the road.

Stopped, popped the hood expecting to see a hole in my block, and everything looked normal! Except there were no alternator or powersteering belts. And no crank pulley! It had came loose, vibrated the belts off (setting the battery light off) and then the bolt vibrated the rest of the way out. I walked back a good 1/4 mi along the highway in rush hour looking for that damn pulley, never found it :x
I had to drive home with no alternator or power steering, 20+ miles on just the battery :lol:

about 1/4 mi from my house it was getting weak and the gauges stopped working. I had the radio off to save juice too. I limped it into the driveway and the battery was done.
I charged it and it lasted until the next winter- WooT for OEM Honda Batteries
:woot:


At least you made it home!! :thumb:
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By asianrob
- Thu May 24, 2007 10:31 pm #8756 damn you got lucky!!
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By chnzgoofball
- Thu May 24, 2007 11:49 pm #8761
civicnation93 wrote:Did an oil change once and was in a bit of a rush myself...oil gasket wasnt fully/properly tightened >< Started the car up then the fun began...had a nice little puddle of oil underneath the car...haha yeah it happens to us all :woot:


i did an oil change on my car and f$#^ing :x forgot to check for the rubber ring around the oil cap if it was on the old oil filter before i put the new one on, so basically i left the old oil filter rubber ring on the block with the new one all my oil shot out and some thru the firewall cuz i have a few rubber plugs missing... it was horrible... :x but looking back now its kind of funny too... lol :lol:
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By ohDirka
- Fri May 25, 2007 1:40 am #8765
teal_dx wrote:I did something dumber once... I didn't know about the Woodruff Key having to be in the Crank Pulley. I even found the "key" (really a tiny rectangle piece of petal) on the ground when I was cleaning up.

About 6 months later I was doing about 60 mph, my battery light came on, and my engine started to vibrate. I let off the gas and a few seconds later I hear a bang up front and something hitting the underside of my car.

I thought I sent a rod through the block, but in my mirror I saw something round rolling off to the side of the road.

Stopped, popped the hood expecting to see a hole in my block, and everything looked normal! Except there were no alternator or powersteering belts. And no crank pulley! It had came loose, vibrated the belts off (setting the battery light off) and then the bolt vibrated the rest of the way out. I walked back a good 1/4 mi along the highway in rush hour looking for that damn pulley, never found it :x
I had to drive home with no alternator or power steering, 20+ miles on just the battery :lol:

about 1/4 mi from my house it was getting weak and the gauges stopped working. I had the radio off to save juice too. I limped it into the driveway and the battery was done.
I charged it and it lasted until the next winter- WooT for OEM Honda Batteries
:woot:


had something similar happen to me..ran the shit out of my car one day at the track..it ran fine the way home only about 2 miles...got up the next morning, warmed the car up before school. started railing these turns in 3rd then I roll up to the stop sign and it started making the similar sound that you described. Then the check engine and battery light came on. I was like shit what should I do? I had a 15mile drive to school. So I wipped around in this intersection and got it home. Got a ride to school then when I got home I looked at it and everything looked fine then wiggled the pulley and it moved a lot. My crank key was destroyed so I had to make a new one
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