I replaced the timeing belt and water pump on my wifes 97 Camry XLE V6
100,000 miles. about 1.5 years ago. Last week I was driving it and noticed a puff of smoke from under the hood. Apon inspection I noticed the belts were not tracking right. My mechanic explanes that something happened the the harmonic balancer?? It has moved in .5" , chewed up the timeing belt cover and started chewing a hole in the engine. He says he can fix the gouge in the engine.My question is, could this have been caused by a mistake in reassembly after the timeing belt was replaces last year??? Could the harmonic balancer have not been put on right causing it to move???
I've never heard of this problem and it seems to much of a coincidence that the timeing belt was worked on not to long ago???
TIA
Steve