[alfa] re: V-6 Timing Belt Tensioner

[Joe Elliott <jee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 3:10 AM +0000 12/11/03, alfa-digest wrote:
> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:03:43 -0500
> From: Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>
> Subject: [alfa] re: V-6 Timing Belt Tensioner
>
> At 12:14 AM +0000 12/11/03, alfa-digest wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 08:38:01 -0700
> > From: "Ritchie, Jason" <jritchie@domain.elided>
> > Subject: [alfa] V-6 Timing Belt Tensioner
> >
> > I am currently retrofitting my GTV-6 from the mechanical tensioner to the
> > old oil fed tensioner that I plan to run statically (without oil pressure).
> > Can anyone give me advice on plugging the oil feed through the stud?  I've
> > thought of RTV or just welding it but I was hoping for better suggestions.
> >
> > Jason Ritchie
> > Boise, Idaho
> > '74 Spider
> > '86 GTV-6
> JB Weld in the original oil feed stud is my suggestion.
>
> - -Joe
Okay, that was kind of ambiguous.  What I meant was to fill the 
original stud with JB Weld, *not* glue it in place with JB Weld.  Put 
the factory-specified threadlocker, or a "thread sealant" on the 
threads.

But as Mark points out, the original stud may not even fit any more, 
if its hole was drilled out to a larger size and tapped with English 
threads, as was the procedure for installing the thermomechanical 
tensioner.

-Joe
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