[Vwdiesel] timing belt tension

[Terry Briggs]

I tend to agree with that, I bought a tool for doing the belt tension 
on porsche 2.5ltr's, a real pain to use and interpret, after I did a 
few the same method applies, slide it a couple mm back and forth and 
your golden.{that was $400 well spent}
On Oct 31, 2007, at 12:42 PM, LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 10/31/2007 4:22:49 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> knealeski at sbcglobal.net writes:
>
>> Or why not take all the guesswork out and get the belt tension testing
>> device?  It's penny wise and pound foolish to save the labor costs of 
>> a properly
>> equipped shop but put yourself into the potential position of paying 
>> for a
>> head rebuild.
>
>
>   Probably because until someone recently found one for about
> $40 or so, they were close to $200 for a plastic tension gauge.
> Once you get the feel for it you can set it as accurate as
> necessary and much more quickly without it.  :-)
>   If you don't know how to read the gauge then you're not better
> off and it's not blatantly obvious how to us it.
>      Loren
>
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