DaveInSaltLake

I'm elbows deep in a 30V timing belt job and broke my only cam chain tensioner retainer. Anyone have one I could borrow....and, of course, replace if it meets the same fate as mine? Cell is probably better than email as I'll probably be at the hardware store when it opens trying to jerry-rig a substitue.

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hans j

If I head down to the shop today I can grab one of mine. I will call if I do.

DaveInSaltLake

residual force the tensioner actually has. I could compress it by hand, eventually, and pulled the camshafts out with the tensioner. I used my home made retainer jut to hold it compressed during reassembly.

First time thru this on a 30V...a little more complex than the 4 or 5 12V TBs I've done.

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Hybrid_Hatch

nice, nothing like a little Macgyver garage engineering!