What does it sound like? From what I hear it makes a god awful noise for a while and then finally lets go. Anybody have this happen?

 

not really a bad noise. At idle it sounds like something is slapping around and its definatly a belt. As long as you havent engaged vtec on a broken tensioner and the gears aint slip u should be ok. A costomer came in with a broken tensioner and drove it from his house to our shop and there was no damage. But the best thing is to convert to 2.3 tensioner, and its really easy and makes for soo much less work down the road. By the way all our 2.2 run 2.3 tensioners and none of them ever broke.

 

No metallic rattling or engine vibration?

 

ok, just curious, would it be wise for me to go ahead and replace my auto-tensioner since i'm putting the engine back together anyways?

 

I would say so...may even want to consider a manual tensioner. Are you replacing the timing belt? If so the tensioner is a smart plan.

Are there any cons to the manual tensioner? Other then keeping an eye on the tension over time and adjusting when necessary?

 

oh yeah, the blet is being replaced... but about the manual tensiorer, i'v heard of it being done, but never found any specifics on how to do it.

 

Details: http://www.preludeonline.com/showthr...threadid=43808

 

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i'm not a member.... can you just cut and paste the info or something?

 

what parts fo i need for this???? just the belt tensioner from an H23? or are their other things too?

 

Sorry guy it's a really big thread and it's only $6

 

yeah, info i need now, and i don't have time to pay the 6 bux through paypal, and let PO have time to process it so i can read the damn thread sometime within the next week, i need it YESTERDAY!!!!

 

Well don't get pissed at me! Check your e-mail


[Modified by satan_srv, 11:22 AM 10/22/2002]

 

whoa man, i'm not getting pissed, i'm just saying, i never even knew anything about using a manual tensioner until like 2 days ago, so now i just need some good inofr on wether i want to do it or not.

 

i got the mail, thanks

 

I'll post this again

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=199135

 

yeah, i searched for that after i read the other article. i've only heard very few things about them, so i wasn't sure if anyone had posted about it..... even though the thread didn't start out like that

 

Yeah I guess that's my question as well. Once you have the manual tensioner...when do you set the tension? on a cold engine? warm? How often do you adjust it after?