Belt's snapped.
Is this engine likely to be damaged, and if so, what's likely to have died? It wouldn't have been going fast at the time - an auto going downhill at less than 40mph.
This engine is a valve muncher I'm afraid. The extent - who knows.
You didn't try and start it again did you?
Ta, G.
Postulation : If he didn't try to restart it, the damage may not be terminal.
Because it's an auto, as soon as the engine stopped, it'll have cut the power to the auto box, so there's no connection between the wheels and the engine.
It may have only tried to go round as much as there was remaining rotational energy in the torque converter & crank shaft.
OTOH, it could be one of those automatic manuals, with a manual box under computer control!
Pete.
I'd have said that what ever he did after it went wouldn't have mattered. One turn of the crank with the belt broken and somthings gonna be bent.
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The wife did.
Then, in your inner heart, you know the answer.
4 bent valves, not that difficult a job though.
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I presume the valves are all the same - there's not grades and sizes and things. Apart from inlet and exhaust, obviously.
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