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Old 02-09-2008, 07:05 PM   #1
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Just ranting.....

My f'ing car is a POS!!! That's all I gotta say! I can't fix one damn thing without something going wrong!!! I f'ed up my belt tensioner..... The directions told me to torch the bolt, well guess what.... One little turn with the torch wrench and SNAP! Threads are busted. Now what do I do?!?!?!? Seems to me that the motor is f'ed up now and there's nothing I can do about it. I hate my f'ing car!!!
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Old 02-09-2008, 07:11 PM   #2
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for every dumb @$$ little thing that breaks or even big thing that breaks there is a way to fix it some way or another. especially on an n-body, too much crap breaks too often... lol.
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Old 02-09-2008, 07:19 PM   #3
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yeah but this is engine stuff.... I really don't think there is a way to fix it without paying someone a lot of money to do...
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Old 02-09-2008, 07:27 PM   #4
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The directions told me to torch the bolt
I'd get new directions.
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Old 02-09-2008, 07:28 PM   #5
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sorry... bad spelling.... you know what I mean though, right? lol
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Old 02-09-2008, 07:34 PM   #6
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yeah, but I can't figure out how you broke your freaking tensioner.. it's supposed to withstand some wrenching because the assembly moves. did you try torquing the wrong direction? what directions were these from; what were you doing?
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Old 02-09-2008, 07:40 PM   #7
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^ wouldn't torqueing the wrong direction be loosening it?

Just find someone with an easyout and hopefully that works.
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Old 02-09-2008, 07:42 PM   #8
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no no no... The tensioner is fine, the threads where the bolt screws into the motor broke. there's nothing wrong with the tensioner other than it can't be attatched to the car now cause the bolt won't tighten.
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Old 02-09-2008, 07:50 PM   #9
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Drill it out and use an easy out.
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Old 02-09-2008, 07:50 PM   #10
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oops. double post.
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Old 02-09-2008, 11:16 PM   #11
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probably used foot lbs. rather than inch lbs. or else it would have been fine
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Old 02-09-2008, 11:19 PM   #12
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Chris, back away from the car for today and tackle it tomorrow. It will be fine.
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Old 02-09-2008, 11:23 PM   #13
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^ ya stuff always works better when your calm
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Old 02-09-2008, 11:44 PM   #14
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It was inch pounds.... I barely turned it too.... which makes me wonder if it was going to happen no matter what..... Is it fixable though????
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Old 02-09-2008, 11:44 PM   #15
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so all you gotta do it tap the hole, no biggy. relax.
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Old 02-10-2008, 08:23 AM   #16
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can you take a pic so that we can see for sure which bolt you are talking about
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Old 02-10-2008, 10:10 AM   #17
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Yeah. I will take pics later.
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Old 02-10-2008, 10:14 AM   #18
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probably used foot lbs. rather than inch lbs. or else it would have been fine

lol I did that on my old alero when I was doing the limg. Snapped a rocker bolt
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