GsxEcutioner
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Just got this kit today for my 95 4g63t. Is the belt supposed to show the fibers? Is this ok or not?Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
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Thanks! I honestly saw a post somewhere where you said gates timing belts and hydraulic tensioners weren't bad so I chanced my luck on a gates kit with tensioner and waterpump. Lol
I debated between the contitech belt and pulleys kit vs the gates since my motor has a contitech belt and GMB pulleys from the factory, the motor I have was a replacement from Mitsubishi due to crank walk. Uhm I'm not to worried about China made things, I am Chinese and it was probably one of my cousins that put it together . Really though, I'll chance it. The hydraulic tensioner that was on my car had some numbers like 566 or 565. Couldnt figure out if that was oem or not and the waterpump said NPW on it. The gates belt says made in USA and the pulleys are all made in China.
The oem tensioner had roughly 30k on it and was leaking when I removed it. Not sure if that's a common thing either. Yea I looked online for a oem tensioner and non of the numbers I can see matched the one I had. Figured it might've been non oem unit. As far as the oem tensioner. Who makes the oem tensioner? Since contitech makes the oem belt, there's gotta be a manufacturer that sells the oem tensioner that's not branded Mitsu.The numbers stamped were from an oem tensioner, I can see how doing no research on this subject before hand has made you the expert at this
The belt brand is irrelevant, the tensioner being a poor quality oem clone with a poorly cast chamber that will bleed pressure is kind of the important part not the country of origin.
Gates says made in USA, btw statistically speaking there is a higher chance my cousin made the USA belt than your cousin made the china tensioner.
The belt brand is irrelevant, the tensioner being a poor quality oem clone with a poorly cast chamber that will bleed pressure is kind of the important part not the country of origin.
It's your choice but why bother risking it. It's only the most important piece of the engine. I'd rather know I did it right than to question it later
do you have any personal experience with a failed Gates unit you can share? Or, can you at least point to something outlining the sub-standard design you mentioned in your earlier post? I'm not saying it's not true, I've just never heard that said before.
Yes 4 tensioners in 4 years on my last dsm. Shop did the work with gates kit each time and each time everything was covered by the shop. Warranty ran out and I finally had time to do it myself so I went oem a few years ago
Good luck. Seems like none of you have really done any research on gates
^Installation error.
^Lol. Can't exactly blame the tensioner for user error, can you?http://www.dsmtuners.com/threads/broken-timing-tensioner.499775/My helper is underneath on the crank and I'm up top at the cams. unfortunatly he's not strong enough to turn the engine himself so I've been helping by pulling the cam at the same time. so we're BOTH turning the engine (probably from the cam more though cuz he's a wimp).