94 850 manual wagon, cranks no start after shredding serpentine belt

Tomasdvolvo · Post by **Tomasdvolvo** » 04 Jul 2018, 16:25

My 1994 850 cut out going over a speed bump and now won’t start. The serpentine belt was half shredded with pieces wrapped around pulleys. My tensioner is not in line with the belt I just realized after replacing the belt but all pulleys spin freely so I don’t see this keeping the car from starting, but this is causing a new line of wear exactly where the other belt shredded. (3/4 of the belt width was still there) It cranks, but no start. I have spark and fuel. It attempted a start and blew black smoke from somewhere under the hood and died again (this start up was noisy and lasted less than 5 seconds) I have now also noticed, may or may not be affiliated, but there is a clear oily liquid now soaking into the driver side floor. It’s coming from the area of the heater core but it’s not the antifreeze/burnt water smell it gave off before replacing that a year ago. I noticed a clear odorless oil drip on my driveway, coming from passenger side a couple days before the belt incident, but that’s on the opposite side of the car and again I don’t know if it’s affiliated with the driver side leak or the engine not starting but I am giving all information noticed. This leak could possibly be right under pulleys or passenger side brakes.

The engine turning also seems sluggish and noisy when trying to start the car.

If any other info is needed, please advise.

Post by **abscate** » 04 Jul 2018, 17:03

I suspect the tensioner is the wrong part

The SERP belt won’t prevent starting so you should follow the nostart thread

Post by **June** » 04 Jul 2018, 17:10

Could the clear oil in the driver's side floor be break fluid leaking through the booster? When the belt wrapped around the pulleys could it have pressed on the timing cover causing the timing belt to skip a tooth or so? June

Tomasdvolvo · Post by **Tomasdvolvo** » 04 Jul 2018, 17:40

abscate wrote: ↑04 Jul 2018, 17:03 I suspect the tensioner is the wrong part

The SERP belt won’t prevent starting so you should follow the nostart thread

As far as the tensioner and belt that is definitely our issue for a chewed belt, but we can’t figure out the no start. I’ll look for that thread, thanks.

Tomasdvolvo · Post by **Tomasdvolvo** » 04 Jul 2018, 17:45

June wrote: ↑04 Jul 2018, 17:10 Could the clear oil in the driver's side floor be break fluid leaking through the booster? When the belt wrapped around the pulleys could it have pressed on the timing cover causing the timing belt to skip a tooth or so? June

Hi June, we will check on the break fluid from the booster. As far as the timing belt, the cover looks fine and we also have tested the belt and timing and it appears ok. Marks are lining up 100%.

Post by **June** » 04 Jul 2018, 19:39

Tomasdvolvo wrote: ↑04 Jul 2018, 17:45
June wrote: ↑04 Jul 2018, 17:10 Could the clear oil in the driver's side floor be break fluid leaking through the booster? When the belt wrapped around the pulleys could it have pressed on the timing cover causing the timing belt to skip a tooth or so? June
Hi June, we will check on the break fluid from the booster. As far as the timing belt, the cover looks fine and we also have tested the belt and timing and it appears ok. Marks are lining up 100%.

Thank God the timing belt is fine! Could there be some pieces of the belt jamming something out of site like behind the balancer? Is there a sensor or wire that could have been damaged or unplugged slightly? I sure hope you figure it out. June

Post by **rspi** » 04 Jul 2018, 20:03

All clear oily stuff is coolant.

The car will start without the serpentine belt, so you can take that off and have that removed from the equation.

Tomasdvolvo · Post by **Tomasdvolvo** » 05 Jul 2018, 20:25

here is a video of us trying to start the vehicle. It does occasionally backfire while attempting to start but didn’t in this particular video.