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      04-27-2014, 07:45 AM   #131
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Drives: 2006 BMW 330i / 2000 VW GTI
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Markham, ON

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Did it today. Quite easy thanks to the instructions here. No opportunity to check the pulley torque because my digital adaptor's battery was dead. However, I erred on the side of the lower number as the original wasn't particularly tight.

I stuck a small screwdriver in the old tensioner to keep it open but then forgot to remove it before disconnecting it from the block. Left it to the side while I dealt with something else. Came by 30 mins later and the screwdriver was snapped in half and the tensioner had broken apart. It couldn't take the stress of being compressed for so long.
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