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Just fitting an auxiliary belt to a 19 plate 1.6 Honda diesel - Earth Dreams - yeah, right.
It has an automatic tensioner, so spanner on, heave towards the windscreen........
and snap the bloody aluminium hexagon clean off :cry:
Honestly, I did nowt wrong, mister!
Have a better day everyone
John :)
 
Theres a cast lug instead of a hexagon on the DV6 engines that gets a bit "slippery" after a few goes..
It also disappears under the engine mount if it comes unpinned during the cambelt replacing,so you have to take it all back apart again to find the tensioner lug.
 
Someone in my local who is into his older Jap cars is always complaining about the quality of bolts and fastenings on older Jap stuff. Says far more of them break than on non Jap cars. Don't know if it's a problem in general, or just him.
 
Early jap bikes had the smaller fastners made from monkey faeces
To make it worse they had phillips heads.
But they weren't actually phillips they were JIS type which virtually no one in Europe knew about so blindly used the wrong tools.
 
Components made from monkey metal?

Think the (quite comprehensive) tool kit that new Russian Ladas came equipped with in the 1980's :rolleyes:
 
ReganAndCarter said:
Someone in my local who is into his older Jap cars is always complaining about the quality of bolts and fastenings on older Jap stuff. Says far more of them break than on non Jap cars. Don't know if it's a problem in general, or just him.
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I would say totally the opposite.

Much more likely that you can undo old japanese stuff than much newer european examples.
 
I have to agree with that one......I used to work on several Mazda Bongos and the build quality was superb.
All the bolts came out no trouble and appeared to be electro coated with something.
Jap cars built in Britain don’t have that quality now.
John
 
Speaking of component quality, the failing of this tensioner wasn't what I was expecting from Honda!
I can't find any supplier with them in stock either, thankfully there's no hurry - I'll see if Honda can get one in due course.
John :)
 
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