NEED HELP ASAP

[MunsterBro95]

SO have Euro-Marauderville and all coming up soon and some other shows, but my belt tensioner broke off of the cover yesterday. any recommendations on a fix? need one asap

[lji372]

Pics don't blow up on my phone. Appears there was a pretty short bolt in there. Is that correct? If so it doesn't look like you lost too many threads. And if that is the case just get a longer bolt (stock length).

[MunsterBro95]

but what about the piece that broke off? can I do anything about that? will it affect anything missing that chunk?

[Gryphonzus]

does the piece that broke off sit flush with the rest of the tensioner? If so you could probably get by without it until you got a new one. If it sticks out then you could very carefully put some superglue on it and set it in place and hold it until the glue sets and as LJI said earlier get a longer bolt and see how that works. Just take it easy until you get the new one. Hope this helps.

[mm svt]

It actually looks like it was loose for sometime, if it wore off the post that was once there

[mm svt]

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Here's what it did look like and the bolt length

[RubberCtyRauder]

Should be able to get correct bolt and put broken piece on bolt and match the break up and put tensioner on. It's a locator and it won't fall off, be like a tapered washer.

[mm svt]

I'd try jb weld on the piece your holding and not get any in the threads and bolt the tensioner on while the jb sets up

[Zack]

That is the correct bolt

[lji372]

I'd try jb weld on the piece your holding and not get any in the threads and bolt the tensioner on while the jb sets up

^^^^^this in my opinion

[fastblackmerc]

Buy a new one.

[mm svt]

New one? Timing chain cover? Asap in Germany, Rots of Wruck

[ByronRACE]

JB Weld will fix that. Use the real old school JB Weld, not JB-Qwik. Clean the part extremely well with something like brake kleen, bond the parts together, bolt it up finger tight and let it cure for 24 hours before final torque. That should be a forever fix; I've done much more load-bearing repairs with JB weld and it held.

[MunsterBro95]

Thanks for the help. Did the JB weld that has had to sit for like 18 hours to set

[MunsterBro95]

Will check my work tomorrow

[mm svt]

I would use just enough around the outer edges and bolt the tensioner on with it and use anti seize on the bolt

[ByronRACE]

My dad cracked an air cooled cylinder on a vintage tractor (in half) and couldn't get a replacement. So, he cleaned it, JB welded it back together, ran the piston through the bore to clean off the excess JB Weld, left it clamped in a vice for several days, then reassembled the engine and ran it like that for 2 years before he sold the tractor for parts. Granted, it only ran for maybe an hour twice a year...long enough to cut the hay in the field with a sickle bar mower...but it ran. I lost that bet.