{"id":5629,"date":"2021-12-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=5629"},"modified":"2021-12-20T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T11:00:00","slug":"parts-just-wear-out-sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/20\/parts-just-wear-out-sometimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Parts Just Wear Out Sometimes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Honda Pilot with over 300,000 miles came into the shop. I can&#8217;t remember if it&#8217;s the highest mileage I&#8217;ve personally seen, but it had to be near the most if it wasn&#8217;t. As expected, it had many things wrong with it, but even though it really wasn&#8217;t worth keeping this vehicle, the customer decided they did want the timing belt replaced, when a full timing belt job at a dealer costs more than any car with 300,000 miles is worth. As I should&#8217;ve expected, I had a few more problems doing the job than usual, just because of how old it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021_12_20_05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021_12_20_05.jpg?w=800\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5637\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the very first things I tried to do was remove the serpentine belt, but my socket ended up just rounding off the part of the tensioner you push to remove tension. I ended up just cutting the belt because I was replacing it anyway, and moved on with the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021_12_20_01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021_12_20_01.jpg?w=800\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5636\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once I removed the tensioner from the engine, I could see that it had rounded off because it&#8217;s just aluminum, and these tensioners can take a good bit of force to move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021_12_20_02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021_12_20_02.jpg?w=600\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5639\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At first, I attempted to file down the damaged hex to a smaller socket size, which was easy because it&#8217;s aluminum, but after finishing the timing belt job, when I tried to install the new serpentine belt, it just rounded off again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021_12_20_03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021_12_20_03.jpg?w=600\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5640\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On top of everything the customer had already had to spend on this high mileage car, including a new timing belt tensioner and adjuster pulley, I then had to sell a whole new serpentine belt tensioner. After waiting for one to come in from another dealership in the area, I was able to finally finish the job after multiple delays that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021_12_20_04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021_12_20_04.jpg?w=600\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5641\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putting such shiny new parts on this dirty, oily, old engine just doesn&#8217;t look right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New blog post or video every Monday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCasCW0ImD3UuLeMu5RAZCXg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch Mechanical Malarkey on YouTube!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/merchandise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">T-shirts, hats, and stickers<\/a> are available to order!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Honda Pilot with over 300,000 miles came into the shop. I can&#8217;t remember if it&#8217;s the highest mileage I&#8217;ve personally seen, but it had to be near the most if it wasn&#8217;t. As expected, it had many things wrong with it, but even though it really wasn&#8217;t worth keeping this vehicle, the customer decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-5629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-engines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}