Alright I finally got my car started and now it seems that im having a problem with the timing belt tensioner. When i first started the motor it didn't seem to have a problem, but they didn't set the crank pully to tdc before putting the timing belt on so it ran like ***. So i loosened the tensioner and put everything to tdc. now when i started the car back up the belt was very loose almost to the point to where it could fall off. I loosened the tensioner back up and rotated the the crank pully about half a turn counter clockwise to try and tighten the belt. I then tightened the tensioner back up and i still have a loose timing belt (mainly on the side closest to the head light.) Can anyone suggest something that i can do to fix it? The motor is a b18a and when i got the motor the Belt looked new and the tensioner was supposedly new as well. Thanks to anyone who can give some insight.

 

I had to replace the spring that actually tensions my timing belt due to how old it was, it wouldn't tension it properly.

If all else fails, you could twist the crank counter clockwise a little to put the slack on the tensioner side and manually tension it by prying up on the pulley with a screwdriver. You just gotta be careful not to get it too tight.

 

i kno it might sounds crazy and stupid... but take a coat hanger bend it to a hook at the end... and pull the metal bracket holding the spring... and while ur pulling the spring, tighten up the tensioner... and you should be good to go

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by project 2two9 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i kno it might sounds crazy and stupid... but take a coat hanger bend it to a hook at the end... and pull the metal bracket holding the spring... and while ur pulling the spring, tighten up the tensioner... and you should be good to go </TD></TR></TABLE>

crazy ****,mine is loose too, do you have a pic of your coat hanger tensioner?

sounds like it could save alot of time and effort to do timing belts lol

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by project 2two9 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i know it might sounds crazy and stupid... but take a coat hanger bend it to a hook at the end... and pull the metal bracket holding the spring... and while ur pulling the spring, tighten up the tensioner... and you should be good to go </TD></TR></TABLE>

sounds like a decent idea, but wouldn't you be helping the spring out too much? pretty much what im getting at is that if the springs not doing its job in the first place shouldn't you go ahead and replace this? or is the spring only there for putting on the belt and making it tight then the bolt holds in permanently in place? i think i might have answered my own question