Fail of the day

[Throwback23]

My car has been in the garage for a few weeks and i finally found the time to get the timing back together. Ive always used an allen key on some vice grips in one of the eye holes of the eccentric tensioner but recently got that sweet little tool that was meant for the job and wow.... i quickly found out how little you have to turn the ratchet to attain proper tension on the belt with this tool....should have bought an inch pound tq wrench.... anyways the result was a downwards bent 1mm harbor freight allen (used to hold hydro tentsioner) which luckily came out easy once i realized how dumb what i was doing was. To my main concern, if applying that much tension on the belt i was able to bend that little allen any chance I strained, hurt or fatigued the timing belt, its a gates blue belt that has maybe 5k on it now and while I assume its fine I almost want to get a new belt. Anyways let me know what you thing and yes, rook mistake.

 

[SrKegler]

Shouldn't be any problem. The tensioner puts a lot more pressure on it than that.

 

[simplejoe]

Your good. There's no way you strained the belt.

 

[Throwback23]

Yea I figured I was overthinking the situation. i just saw a video of guys lifting the back of a van with a timing belt although it was a Ducati bike belt they used, I'd imagine the gates automotive belt is even stronger. I figured T belts were strong but that's nuts, Seems safe to say it would be hard to hurt the belt by doing what I did (over tensioning belt causing bent Allen in hydro tensioner, for those who didn't read the first post)... Still a fail though!