i broke my tension bolt to tighten the belts up on my vortech kit i snapped the head right off of the bolt is there any way i can losten it up and replace it or is it something i need the dealer to take care of?

 

you can use an East-out / bolt extractor to get it out.

 

shhh, just play along...

yes you are doomed, death looms, run for the hills!

 

you mean you snapped the long bolt that slides the tensioner pulley up and down?

 

^hahaha

 

yes it snapped the head of the bolt off , any input i can do or do i need to take the car in?

 

+1

 

so its the bolt that is 6 inches long? Itll hold the position you adjusted it to, To re adjust youll probably need some vice grips.

To get it out, you will probably have to drop the entire tensioner assembly. Shoot, nissan might make you buy the entire assembly just to replace the bolt. GL and let us know how it turns on.

 

He must have been trying to tighten it with out loosening up the tentioner puller first ?????

Yup You're Doomed !!!!!

 

I have a used tensioner assembly I'll sell you for $40. They're like $90 at the dealer.

 

you can try a left handed drill bit,it might pull it right out as the bit digs in.

 

DOOMED!!





















jk, unbolt the whole bracket that it mounts to with the three bolts and take it out of the car to fix it.

 

if the belt is too tight get it off, you need to cut the belt to remove it. then, you can remove the tensioner pulley assembly. Don't try to remove the tensioner pulley assembly without removing the belt first!

 

Oh no....we are all gonna die!!!!!!



Oh and i broke one a long time ago and the dealer does not sell just the bolt,i had to buy the tensioner assembly.

 

NO you can just buy the bolt i did it two months ago when i snapped mine putting my vortech on but do what jeremy said and take the who assembly off and it comes right out!!!!!

 

JB Weld.

 

This thread wins most misleading title evar award.

When I come into the FI section and see DOOOOOOOOOOOOMed in a title, I want to see pictures of massive, catastrophic failure!

 

You are just sadistic.

 

yeah like if the thread was about you blowing your engine while taking a turn fast, then losing control, boucing off the highway wall and taking out 6 other cars and 3 motorcycles killing 5 people and injuring 4 and getting the highway closed down for 4 hours as the police made sense of the carnage and arrested you for manslaughter and are being sued by all the other people/insurance companies involved in the accident
....then I'd say you're DOOOOOOOOOMed

but yeah, just replace the tensioner

 

ok ok iknow I over did it LOL but I didnt want to tow the car and have to pay x amount of dollars just for a simple bolt