So I'm driving into work today, and run over a small chunk of ice. I loose my power steering, alternator, and a brake light of some sort comes on as well. So I pull off of 394 onto Hopkins Crossroads, and park the car. Pop the hood, and the accessory belt is just sitting there chilling, off the side of the all of the pulleys. I tried to put it back on, but figured I'd need a few basic tools, which I did not have. The Evo has been freaking awesome for reliability so this is the first time I've had to really deal with something like this.
Anyways, I talk to hughes and he foolishly encouraged me to try and just drive straight home w/o headlights, stereo, or anything on. Well that didn't go so hot. It *might* have been fine, but the car started to overheat! The water pump is not driven by teh accessory belt, so I figured I had a fan not working due to the alternator situation. Foolishly, I pressed on. I made it onto hwy 100 where my car promptly died, and I ended up precariously perched in a blind spot for traffic in the right lane and merging traffic from 394
I can honestly say I thought I was going to die today. There was no where to get off of the road far enough and the car was not moving anywhere. On top of that, the battery was dead, so flashers be able to be on either!!!
THANKFULLY I gave her one more go, and got the car to start for a moment, made it up the hill and off on Duluth street. The car ended up at the Sinclair right there, where we used to hang after bee's.
So long story short, I *HAD* to make it to a court appointment at noon to get my tint ticket that I got back in September waived. I got a ride back to my house, grabbed anna's car, and made it to Eden Prairie, took care of some biz and headed straight back out to Mtka for the court appointment. The ticket got waived, so all's good there, but after I left I talked to the guy at the sinclair whom I had begged to just toss my accessory belt back on quicklike. He asked if I knew where the harmonic tensioner pulley was, as it was MISSING!
Anyways, he said it bolts to the crank pulley, and that all four bolts were broken off and would need to be extracted. I told them to go ahead and do it, and now I'm wondering how the HELL a piece of ice could cause this to happen? I did not have my underbelly pan on, because it SUCKS, but anything else that could have caused this? Has it happened to anyone else?
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