Thu 21st Dec 2000 01:47pm cam belt tensioner bearing (mike adams)
      Thu 21st Dec 2000 02:41pm Re: cam belt tensioner bearing (Al Williams, from Prez Dub'Ya's home state!)
           Thu 21st Dec 2000 04:28pm Re: cam belt tensioner bearing (mike adams)
      Fri 22nd Dec 2000 07:07am chances are even that... (Ron Conlon (Norman, Oklahoma, USA))
           Sat 23rd Dec 2000 02:22pm Re: chances are even that... (mike adams)
51577 Thu 21st Dec 2000 01:47pm cam belt tensioner bearing (mike adams) 
how difficult is it to change?
I am in Michigan w/o a heated garage near the carcass (dead car)

(please say easy!)




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51581 Thu 21st Dec 2000 02:41pm Re: cam belt tensioner bearing (Al Williams, from Prez Dub'Ya's home state!) 
mike adams wrote:
: how difficult is it to change?
: I am in Michigan w/o a heated garage near the carcass (dead 
car)
: (please say easy!)


Easy!

you have to loosen it to change the timing belt, and vice-versa,
so it's a good idea to do both at the same time

Al Williams
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51591 Thu 21st Dec 2000 04:28pm Re: cam belt tensioner bearing (mike adams) 
That's the answer I wanted to here!!  Vicks has one on the way.. 
along with the belt... 
The belt was a givin as mine looks like 6 tiny belts (threads)I 
can't believe I made it home..


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51630 Fri 22nd Dec 2000 07:07am chances are even that... (Ron Conlon (Norman, Oklahoma, USA)) 
mike adams wrote:
: how difficult is it to change?
: I am in Michigan w/o a heated garage near the carcass (dead 
car)
: (please say easy!)
: Mike adams
: mwadams@spartanmotors.com
: autox19@hotmail.com
: Yahoo Pager and AIM AUTOX19


Even odds say the bearing is what trashed the belt.  Do it as a 
matter of course.  Mine fell to pieces as the tension was removed 
and the job is pretty well slip on slip off.  Follow the 
re-tensioning to the letter to protect your new belt.  
   
Ron  
Norman, Oklahoma
http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/C/Ronald.P.Conlon-1/
'79 Spider 124, (Lannia, the name on the dash)
'91 Accord, the transportation apparatus
51696 Sat 23rd Dec 2000 02:22pm Re: chances are even that... (mike adams) 
From the look sof the old tensioner, it definatly has been frozen 
for quite a bit of time, as 3/4 of the outside is corroded, and 
the part the belt is on is shiny!!  I think the belt heated up 
because of the friction created w/o the pully spinning, and dried 
up and split.. Vicks shipped it last friday.. what a way to spend 
my christmas break.. 
BTW, I don't know why people can't understand how to drive in 
winter. I've been driving the X all the way until it broke 
(thurs) 30 miles each way to and from work. all of this in snow 
over 28 inches deep.. the plow piles on the side of the road are 
taller than the car!! and I have never been stuck!! Close a few 
times

Mike adams
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