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Timing Belt Replacement
Topic Started: Nov 25 2011, 02:13 AM (9,528 Views)
bogs
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Duct tape heals all wounds

Tofu, think " in a perfect world..."

Meanwhile, back on planet earth as with so many other things, it rarely works that way in real life.
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I usually add just a bit more than the spring but surely not all the way down!
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Tofuball
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Strange Mechanic

Every one I've taken apart, the spring is so weak it can't move anything.

If the spring was involved in tension I imagine it SHOULD be included in a timing belt kit.
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The spring is actually only used during timing belt installation. After the belt is installed and the spring places the supposedly correct tension on the tensioner against the belt, the bolt is tightened and the spring is useless.
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starscream5000
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IIRC, once the bearing bolt is torqued to spec, the tensioner will slide down to the correct position for the tension.

I torqued the bearing, then tightened the tensioner bolt down, but going from memory the slider was all the way down once it was torqued, or very close to it.
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starscream5000
Nov 28 2011, 03:21 PM
IIRC, once the bearing bolt is torqued to spec, the tensioner will slide down to the correct position for the tension.

If you tighten the bearing bolt it will tighten the bearing and the tensioner tab both where they will not move. Both the bearing bolt and the tensioner slider tab bolt have to be loose for the spring to move the slider tab which moves the tensioner bearing.
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Grr

I let the spring tighten mine. then I pushed on it just a wee bit figuring to make up for age of the spring. then I tightened that bolt and the tightened the bearing bolt.

Fingers crossed :-)

I had to put half the cover back on too. I needed it since that is how you round that wire loon over the top. I did not want it getting into the belt or sitting on top of the VC to melt.
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enginedoctorgeo
Nov 28 2011, 03:44 PM
starscream5000
Nov 28 2011, 03:21 PM
IIRC, once the bearing bolt is torqued to spec, the tensioner will slide down to the correct position for the tension.

If you tighten the bearing bolt it will tighten the bearing and the tensioner tab both where they will not move. Both the bearing bolt and the tensioner slider tab bolt have to be loose for the spring to move the slider tab which moves the tensioner bearing.
I had both loose when I torqued my bearing bolt.
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