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Horse
15-08-2013, 07:32 AM
Hi out there is it normal for the cam belt to have a little slack after the car has sat overnight it tightens up after the engine has been run?
I replaced the belt about 5000km ago and noticed that the original done the same.
All the pulleys and tensioner where replaced and the tensioner was torqued up to 5Nm.

Horse
15-08-2013, 08:18 AM
All good I see there are one million earlier posts about much the same thing.

MadMax
15-08-2013, 08:59 AM
All good I see there are one million earlier posts about much the same thing.

Yep, normal. You can normally turn the water pump pulley by hand quite easily with the engine off and cold.

Horse
15-08-2013, 10:13 AM
Thanks for your reply Madmax much appreciated.