Oil pump gear disaster

[Gibbo205]

Correct. It is a oil fed tensioner, that you drained all the oil out of when you compressed it to install it. Its going to have more play than normal. Willing to bet it would have been fine.

I've the boss tensioners but fitted them, can I just remove the old ones, swap in the boss ones and just run the car?

Are the tensioners a worth while upgrade or should I not have bothered?

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[HGFireHazard]

I've the boss tensioners but fitted them, can I just remove the old ones, swap in the boss ones and just run the car?

Yes.

Are the tensioners a worth while upgrade or should I not have bothered?

If you plan on spinning well above the stock limiter they offer some extra security high in the RPM band. Not necessary if you're staying below stock limiter.

 

[Gibbo205]

Yes.



If you plan on spinning well above the stock limiter they offer some extra security high in the RPM band. Not necessary if you're staying below stock limiter.

I plan on GT 350 IM and spinning upto 7500rpm.

Is removing the old ones and fitting these and easy enough job to do in drive way?

 

[z06psi]

Shouldn't have bothered.

 

[Terminator2]

I plan on GT 350 IM and spinning upto 7500rpm.

Is removing the old ones and fitting these and easy enough job to do in drive way?

If you are doing them you could go to 8000 if you wanted to.

 

[thatonenozz]

It's back together and I didn't blow up! Thanks everyone for the help. You guys kick ass!

 

[Super Werty]

So it ended up being nothing after all?

 

[thatonenozz]

Hard to say. I replace the tensioners with boss ones and threw it all back together and it worked. The consensus seems to be that it would have probably worked all along, but the tapping noise of the non pressurized tensioner scared me so I never fired it.

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