Author Topic: VR6 chain tensioners  (Read 1976 times)

Offline HARDCOR3

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VR6 chain tensioners
« on: 22 June 2006, 15:23 »
Either mine are really really fooked, or i've ran over a midget and he's bangin on the cam cover with a spanner for me to let him out..... :huh:

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Re: VR6 chain tensioners
« Reply #1 on: 22 June 2006, 15:53 »
you ran over a midget :laugh:

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Re: VR6 chain tensioners
« Reply #2 on: 22 June 2006, 16:04 »
 :undecided: if only it was that simple.....

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Re: VR6 chain tensioners
« Reply #3 on: 22 June 2006, 16:07 »
:laugh:

dont worry, i have a midget that pisses oil out of my sump :undecided:

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Re: VR6 chain tensioners
« Reply #4 on: 22 June 2006, 16:09 »
:laugh:

dont worry, i have a midget that pisses oil out of my sump :undecided:

sump gasket and oil etc......£50

chain tensioners and chains £500

do ya wanna swap midgets?????? :grin:

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Re: VR6 chain tensioners
« Reply #5 on: 22 June 2006, 16:12 »
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dont worry, i have a midget that pisses oil out of my sump :undecided:

sump gasket and oil etc......£50

chain tensioners and chains £500

do ya wanna swap midgets?????? :grin:

yes, because i dont need a chain tensioner :laugh: he can be useful and make the tea for me :grin:

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Re: VR6 chain tensioners
« Reply #6 on: 22 June 2006, 17:34 »
How many miles it done?  They're supposed to last the life of the engine aren't they?

Hearing stuff like this always concerns me...  Having just bought a cash absorbtion device VR6 myself, and already having had to fix some big-ass cooling pipe, a door lock, an electric window, the clutch slave cylinder, and now have discovered a CV joint is knackered..   I can well believe it'll decide to throw it's chain out the bonnet and allow the engine to grid itself to pieces.  I think it hates me. :cry:

And I bought it off a mate of mine!  Bastard.  To be totally honest, he either honestly didn't know about the problems (I lived with him while he owned it for 2 years - I only moved out about a month and a half before buying it)  And none of it is that bad really - I know a cheap mechanic and can do quite a bit myself  :wink:  And at least I know which bits are new.

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Re: VR6 chain tensioners
« Reply #7 on: 22 June 2006, 17:36 »
120k, but last 10k ave been full tilt miles........ :evil:

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Re: VR6 chain tensioners
« Reply #8 on: 22 June 2006, 22:48 »
nah timing chains are pretty much due at this age. did them on a vr two weeks ago, gearbox off job takes a while as so much has to come off to get them out, but they run so much sweeter afterwards!
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Re: VR6 chain tensioners
« Reply #9 on: 22 June 2006, 23:33 »
if the car was close to 100k I would get them done. they're a right swine, but have to be done.
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