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[coastie123]

Hi guys

after anearly successful cambelt change with darths help(2x phonecalls) as the cams were out quite alot I have now changed cambelt kit, aux belt, aux tensioners and water pump etc and the car is running alot better but I have noticed a small whine coming from one of the tensioners(I think) would this whining be happening due to a tensioner or something being tightened to tight???

Apart from thy it's running sweet as a nut...

Some advice needed please anda big thanks to daz for his time over the phone!!!!

Regards

Shaun

[tidla]

probably pointless to mention it now, once the belt was on,( no covers) did you start and check for noises? :-?

[JamesV6CDX]

probably pointless to mention it now, once the belt was on,( no covers) did you start and check for noises? :-?

If you're fitting the parts correctly, there is no need to run the thing without any covers. For starters, you won't have any cooling, and there will be no SAI connected. You also won't have any MAF, ATS, multiram connected, which will log fault codes and is a pain.

I've done more V6 cambelts than I can recall.... and out of them all, have never run the engine with the covers off... 

[tidla]

sorry, forgot to mention. this is a short period check.if it sound sweet at this point then its going to sound sweet once you have the covers on. admittedly fault codes(which your not intersted in at this point) will be stored(easily wiped) but at least you know any noises which might develop are not behind the covers. thats the way i do things..imho..

[Elite Pete]

Take the Auxiliary belt off and start it see if the noise goes but only run it for a short time.

[coastie123]

Cheers pete will try it over the weekend, as I spent Ages yesterday getting it all correct.. And an earful from the misses!!!

It sound like it's behind the cover, drivers side could it be a dodgy backing plate/tensioners etc or just to tight???

[Elite Pete]

Cheers pete will try it over the weekend, as I spent Ages yesterday getting it all correct.. And an earful from the misses!!!

It sound like it's behind the cover, drivers side could it be a dodgy backing plate/tensioners etc or just to tight???

Did you use a torque wrench?

[coastie123]

Yes all torqued as per the DVD

[coastie123]

just an update...

I have taken off the aux belt and started the car up for a short time and the whine is still there...

Us there any other thing I could look for before I strip the rest of it down....

The whine definately coming from behind cambelt cover drivers side...

I just hope it's not a dodgy backplate/tensioner/idler etc

shaun