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Originally posted by joesplace62
Thanks for the replies, guys.
Kurt, that belt looks just like what I found in my engine bay. I had that motor installed 4 years ago and never saw any sign of it in there before. I wouldn't have believed my wrench would have left it there after converting the motor to carbs. Just goes to show, if you want something done right you have to do it yourself!
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Here is something to think about. Assume your wrench left the belt just hanging there and the cog for the pump was still attached to the cam, but the other cog is gone along with the MFI pump. The cam cog is always spinning every time the car is running. Now suppose the belt which was hanging there, but not touching the cog actually came in contact with the cog for some reason (maybe you hit a bump, maybe gravity, who knows) anyway engages on cog and with no MFI Pump cog to attach to just starts whipping around. Comes into contact with throttle linkage, grabs linkage, red lines engine. While this sounds crazy, who knows?