Thread: Damn circlip!

It looks the same as the V8 one. I just used 2 fine tipped flat blade screwdrivers (one on each end of the circlip part if you think of it as one straight piece of metal) and it popped out easily enough from memory. Maybe I got lucky.

Originally Posted by Utemad

It looks the same as the V8 one. I just used 2 fine tipped flat blade screwdrivers (one on each end of the circlip part if you think of it as one straight piece of metal) and it popped out easily enough from memory. Maybe I got lucky.

Nope, thats how I did it as well - worked fine.

Someone invented circlip pliers with swappable tips to do this kind of job, but 2 sharp-edged flat blade screw drivers are good enough. That is, not the ones you use as tent pegs or chisels.

Before refitting the circlip file the ends slightly so you have a bit more "hook" to get your blades under.

I got it out! YAY!! LOL
Good thing I was wearing leather gloves, i'd have end up with quite a few cuts, the edges are damn sharp!

But what I thought was my problem initially, turns out to be not what I thought it to be, a noisy tension pulley bearing ...

I posted a vid clip of it up in this thread

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/discovery-...ideo-clip.html

I just removed the bearing from my V8 pulley - the hole job took about 4 minutes - the circlip was a proper one - no skinned knuckles, no having to try and find the pulley across the road.

Garry

Sounds like the belt to me its a constant timing of the ticking try reversing the belt as said before and see if it stops it seams to coincide with the writing on the belt though

did you try WD40 to see if it stops

use a piece of hose with one end stuck in your ear and a ear plug in the other to pinpoint where the sound is coming from but be careful not to get it caught in a pulley you might find out its not even that pulley

Originally Posted by Disco_Balls

I got it out! YAY!! LOL
Good thing I was wearing leather gloves, i'd have end up with quite a few cuts, the edges are damn sharp!

But what I thought was my problem initially, turns out to be not what I thought it to be, a noisy tension pulley bearing ...

I posted a vid clip of it up in this thread

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/discovery-...ideo-clip.html

Balls, next tme get yourself a set of circlip pliers, put the tensioner in a vice, with the pliers in one hand spread the clip and with the other hand stick a small screwdiver blade between the bearing and the clip (directly opposite the pliers) and push under and prise up (good idea to wear safety glasses) and it will spring out, never to be seen ever again, Regards Frank.

Hey Tank! Yeah tried circlip pliers, couldn't get the job done with them, not from lack of trying mind you.
End up getting the circlip out with the two fine blade screwdrivers, which I had been attempting to do for quite a while before I almost had a brain explosion and hoiked the damn thing LOL