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Cambelt changers - a favour please!
« on: 23 October 2008, 15:14:32 »
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
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Re: Cambelt changers - a favour please!
« Reply #1 on: 23 October 2008, 15:19:04 »
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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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Re: Cambelt changers - a favour please!
« Reply #2 on: 23 October 2008, 15:24:14 »
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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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Re: Cambelt changers - a favour please!
« Reply #3 on: 23 October 2008, 15:25:13 »
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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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Re: Cambelt changers - a favour please!
« Reply #4 on: 23 October 2008, 15:25:59 »
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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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Re: Cambelt changers - a favour please!
« Reply #5 on: 23 October 2008, 17:02:57 »
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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« Reply #6 on: 23 October 2008, 17:13:30 »
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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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« Reply #7 on: 23 October 2008, 17:31:30 »
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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« Reply #8 on: 23 October 2008, 18:39:55 »
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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« Reply #9 on: 23 October 2008, 18:44:57 »
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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Re: Cambelt changers - a favour please!
« Reply #10 on: 23 October 2008, 19:00:24 »
 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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Re: Cambelt changers - a favour please!
« Reply #11 on: 23 October 2008, 19:02:13 »
I am getting a mental picture of James garage stacked floor to ceiling with cambelt tensioners. ;D
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Re: Cambelt changers - a favour please!
« Reply #12 on: 23 October 2008, 19:08:08 »
I'll have one next week  :y
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Re: Cambelt changers - a favour please!
« Reply #13 on: 23 October 2008, 19:08:25 »
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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. ;)

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« Reply #14 on: 23 October 2008, 19:08:33 »
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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.
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