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May a lose TB tensioner do this? ***PICTURE*** 900

posted by  thePopeMobile on  Thu Oct 13 17:53 CST 2005
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Good evening forum,
I'll appreciate if you could share some of your expertise on this accident.

I had replaced the timing belt and tensioner about 3000mi ago. I never re-adjusted the tensioner after installing the belt so this evening I decided to pop the rubber inspection plug and do the untight-retight procedure and to my surprise the tensioner nut was lose to the point that it could be removed by hand.

I also noticed some black rubber dust on the plug I removed to gain access to the tensioner nut, so I decided to open the belt cover and check the origin of the dust.

I found the belt (as you can see from the picture) about 1/4" "overboard" from the camshaft pulley and tensioner. I'm glad I checked!!

MY QUESTION IS: Can a lose tensioner nut cause all this? It might be possible that the nut was never tighten after the belt installation.

Thank you and good evening.

Davide D.

EXTRA PICTURES (if click does not work, copy and paste):
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http://home.comcast.net/~dasandro/timing3.JPG





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