[Vwdiesel] timing belt tension

[James Hansen]

Yes.
Occasionally, a mechanic is more than a bag of tools and a person that 
knows what they are used for.  Unfortunately, the current climate of a 
shop existing for nothing more than employing flat rate parts changers 
does not foster much beyond the tool bag. It's quite sad really.
A properly equipped shop is more about the skill of the person doing the 
work, than the tools in the shop.
-james


  wrote:
> 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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