Re: Timing belt broke after 50k miles?!

"Steve B." <none@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 6 May 2008 17:25:42 +0100, "Mortimer" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>
>>Ah, so it's acceptible to have a belt where the longitudinal ridges have
>>cracks at closely-spaced intervals all the way round the belt? OK. It 
>>looked
>>as if it was badly perished, but maybe it was still serviceable.
>
> Here's a decent guide with pictures:
> http://www.haynes.com/files/product/240.59010sp.pdf

Thanks for that. My belt was like the "acceptible" picture at the top
right 
of the first page, though with even more frequent cracks.

So it looks as if the belt itself was OK and it was a pulley that
destroyed 
the belt.