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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: JamesV6CDX on 23 October 2008, 15:14:32
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Hi Guys
If any of you do a DIY cambelt change, please don't throw away the tensioner backplate. I am wanting to collect a little pile of them. Handy when manufacturers send me the wrong backplate! :y
Cheers
James
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Hi Guys
If any of you do a DIY cambelt change, please don't throw away the tensioner backplate. I am wanting to collect a little pile of them. Handy when manufacturers send me the wrong backplate! :y
Cheers
James
Think I might be a little concerned if in the first place place you were sent the wrong cam belts and secondly haviing then to use second hand parts. :-/
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Hi Guys
If any of you do a DIY cambelt change, please don't throw away the tensioner backplate. I am wanting to collect a little pile of them. Handy when manufacturers send me the wrong backplate! :y
Cheers
James
Think I might be a little concerned if in the first place place you were sent the wrong cam belts and secondly haviing then to use second hand parts. :-/
The backplate doesn't wear as it has no moving parts AFAIK.
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Hi Guys
If any of you do a DIY cambelt change, please don't throw away the tensioner backplate. I am wanting to collect a little pile of them. Handy when manufacturers send me the wrong backplate! :y
Cheers
James
Think I might be a little concerned if in the first place place you were sent the wrong cam belts and secondly haviing then to use second hand parts. :-/
If you end up with a stripped down engine that you need to get running, it is a very useful fallback....
It's rare it would happen because I have at least 5 of each types of kit in stock, and take two kits if I go to do a job!
As far as "second hand" parts are concerned, a backplate is just that, a backplate - nothing to wear on a peice of metal, when new tensioners are mounted on it...
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Hi Guys
If any of you do a DIY cambelt change, please don't throw away the tensioner backplate. I am wanting to collect a little pile of them. Handy when manufacturers send me the wrong backplate! :y
Cheers
James
Think I might be a little concerned if in the first place place you were sent the wrong cam belts and secondly haviing then to use second hand parts. :-/
The backplate doesn't wear as it has no moving parts AFAIK.
Correct.
I re-used my backplate, when I did my Elite cambelt kit change.
As long as the threads on the bolts are OK, it's not an issue whatsoever...
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I think my old one is still in the shed.If it is I will keep it,and you can shout if your desperate. :y
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I think my old one is still in the shed.If it is I will keep it,and you can shout if your desperate. :y
It really is just for emergencies - just in the same way I carry spare bolts, nuts, etc. thank you!
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just had a look James. I do still have it. If you want it at any time just remind me that it,s behind the freezer. ;D ;D :y
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mines due to be done in the next 10K (that won't take long to rack up)
your welcome to a later 2.5/2.6 one then if you want ;)
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If you want to have a collection in stock James, PM me details and I will send it to you early next week. :y
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Hi James,
I've still got mine if you want it :y.
Also got a V6 waterpump which didn't need changing, but as I'd already bought one thought i might as well so old pump very good :y.
You quite welcome to both if you or another member who lives near you is passing by the Uxbridge Middlesex area :).
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I am getting a mental picture of James garage stacked floor to ceiling with cambelt tensioners. ;D
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I'll have one next week :y
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I am getting a mental picture of James garage stacked floor to ceiling with cambelt tensioners. ;D
He could stack them in the bath instead, cos I bet he hasn't fixed the overflow yet. ;)
Kevin
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I am getting a mental picture of James garage stacked floor to ceiling with cambelt tensioners. ;D
Yeah, he could do a Rodney Trotter with the broken lawn mower engines :D ;D ;D.