chris_boyle33
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I've titled this thread with terms its most likely to be searched for. I retensioned my balance and camshaft belts this weekend gone. I got the official porsche tool and set about taking the tension from 4.0 precise units to 2.7 units with an exact tolerance of +/- 0.3.
After adjusting the tensioner and clamping it back up my tension was still around 3.5. I then 'wiggled' all the sprockets and bits of belt and got it down to 2.5 - 2.7ish. I then rotated the flywheel 720 degrees as the destructions indicated to do. I then remeasured the tension which was now about 9 units (on the belt from camshaft sprocket to the flywheel).[]. However the belt was still way looser everywhere else - around the tensioners and other rollers. After a little wiggling but no moving the tensioner the tension changed from 9 to between 3 and 2.7.[>:]
The job's done and i'm happy with it. I know i've used the right tools and as well as can be done (i think) but... i can't help feeling that the tension is blatantly not '2.7 units'. Rather its just 'kinda slacker'.
Has anyone else done this job? Is wiggling belts and jiggling things a legitimate way of getting the tensioner to read 2.7? Note i'm posting this three days after the event. This is to virtually eradicate the profanity that would otherwise have been included.[]
After adjusting the tensioner and clamping it back up my tension was still around 3.5. I then 'wiggled' all the sprockets and bits of belt and got it down to 2.5 - 2.7ish. I then rotated the flywheel 720 degrees as the destructions indicated to do. I then remeasured the tension which was now about 9 units (on the belt from camshaft sprocket to the flywheel).[]. However the belt was still way looser everywhere else - around the tensioners and other rollers. After a little wiggling but no moving the tensioner the tension changed from 9 to between 3 and 2.7.[>:]
The job's done and i'm happy with it. I know i've used the right tools and as well as can be done (i think) but... i can't help feeling that the tension is blatantly not '2.7 units'. Rather its just 'kinda slacker'.
Has anyone else done this job? Is wiggling belts and jiggling things a legitimate way of getting the tensioner to read 2.7? Note i'm posting this three days after the event. This is to virtually eradicate the profanity that would otherwise have been included.[]