[gac]

Originally Posted by Bal s t

Did mine today,took a hour and abit few scratched knucles and alot of swearing.but done,car sounds quiter on idle not that it was loud to begin with,hard to explain but hardly any clatter,cars only on 42k so see how i get on🤞🏾

Can we go back to the posts saying how easy it is? After TurboWeasel's post I figured this was well within my capabilities with my qualifications of "has hands" and "owns ratchet". But no one else seems to be finding it trivial

[Watsey]

Originally Posted by gac

Can we go back to the posts saying how easy it is? After TurboWeasel's post I figured this was well within my capabilities with my qualifications of "has hands" and "owns ratchet". But no one else seems to be finding it trivial

He left out a couple of minor details - also need triple-jointed wrists and eyes on the ends of your fingers :-)

[Bal s t]

Originally Posted by Watsey

He left out a couple of minor details - also need triple-jointed wrists and eyes on the ends of your fingers :-)

Definitely not as easy as it sounded hence why I ordered the part and wanted to do it,it was just more fiddly and space constricting,other than that straightforward,on the plus side car sounds quiter and the chain is as tight as it can be,not planning on selling it anytime soon so a win win in my book.👍🏾

[TurboWeasel]

Sorry guys, I forgot to mention it's only easy when there's a solar eclipse and you've had 3 shredded wheat and a boiled egg for breakfast.

[gac]

Thought about taking a look at this while the sun's out and hit the first snag. I have a 70Nm torque wrench that I bought for changing the oil a couple of weeks ago. What I don't have is a 3/8" drive 24mm socket to go with the torque wrench, only a 1/2" drive. Excuse for more tool shopping I guess...

[TurboWeasel]

You can never have too many tools. Don't worry too much about torquing to 70nm. It's a tight torque for the restricted access. You need to get the socket onto the tensioner dead square to avoid rounding off the soft aluminium.

You will feel the crush washer flattening down and then it will stop, much like a sump bolt. Give it one more final ugger dugger at that point, and that's all it needs.

[dave550i]

Joined the New Tensioner Club today!

[gac]

Originally Posted by dave550i

Joined the New Tensioner Club today!

I've got this far too!

Still slacking on actually installing it though, even though I know it won't be keeping the chain very taut sat on my desk...

[TurboWeasel]

BMW will probably run out of tensioners soon

[gac]

Originally Posted by TurboWeasel

BMW will probably run out of tensioners soon

Perfect - for anyone reading this in 12 months time, if I still haven't got around to fitting it, then you're more than welcome to buy it from me for £120+postage