spat vxr
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Registered: 20th Nov 06
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i fitted fast road piper cam shafts and some vernier pulleys not got a brand on them new cambelt kit the lot. done about 1000 miles with it all on sat at round about and big bang the inlet pulley has snapped. where the 7 ring of bolts bolt to the end of cam shaft, destroyed engine got no compresion in cylinders 1 and 4. has any one eles had the same problems.
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Deano_19
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Registered: 6th Feb 10
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hav a word with the place u got em from and bill the fukas for it .
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Dale
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Registered: 7th Oct 07
Location: Swindon
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are these the blue/red ones or are they kent ones?
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philip2
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Registered: 1st Oct 06
Location: n.wales/chester
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What cams wer they, what pistons were in engne, what revs were u doing?
Get some pics up.
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Nic Barnes
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was it timed up as described with cams?
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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Did you torque the bolts to the correct setting?
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Olsrey
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Registered: 13th Jan 07
Location: Bradford Drives: LET Vectra B
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What pulleys were they?
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spat vxr
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yes it was all set up correctly and bolts was tight dont no the make of the pulleys brought them off ebay look like old pulleys that have been made adjustable and the cam are piper fast road
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Mertin
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Registered: 12th Oct 05
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Old pulleys that have been made adjustable? So bodged?
And being tight doesnt mean its torqued correctly. Couldv'e over torqued it
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ed
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Yea, converting old pulleys doesn't sound the best of ideas as there isn't really a lot of metal there to work with.
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philip2
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Get pics up of the pulleys
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grez12
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quote: Originally posted by philip2
Get pics up of the pulleys
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spikedjack
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Registered: 16th Oct 08
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quote: Originally posted by Mertin
And being tight doesnt mean its torqued correctly. Couldv'e over torqued it
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