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⚠️ WARNING! ⚠️ The following material you are about to see may induce nausea and/or panic. Well it has for me anyway... Please tell me I had the right settings and I'm just a numpty for using the old bolts... I leave my torque wrench at zero after every use, too. It didn't click. I've mixed...

Oh, I see! Ha ha ha ha! I can imagine now... the fact he was banned nails it.

It was the "above each other..." caught me off guard. https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/gas-aga-question.387848/page-2#post-5572952 Is this the one?

I think its the 10mm Allen key from what I've read elsewhere on thr forum. The thread turned into a barney 😄. One guy stating the AC tensioner has "two holes above each other..."

Right, we're on. I've put copper slip on the sleeve thread, sleeve/elbow slot & cap to secure elbow joint. Nothings torqued up yet, though. Definitely must have been the tensioner itself as the new one gave way much easier with lots of movement. What size allen key do I need for the AC...

But not the end of the world, HA HAAARRR...

Well maby...

Well I had to cut a fair bit of the lip off the back of the old one to get the sleeve in the vice. The metal looks powdery where its snapped in places. Not sure if I'd want to put that back on even in an emergency.

Yeah, I would do but half the fluid has drained out of it now and the plastic washer has broken off it. I'm not sure if it was broken to begin with. The actual elbow wasn't seized onto the sleeve. It did rotate but the cap was seized. So all I can think of is it must have been the tensioner...

Right back again. Been a mixture of procrastination due to the weather but I finally got the cap off the tensioner sleeve... but as you probably know it wasn't easy. I actually ripped the vice mounting bolts through the table trying to get it off. Mind you the table was made of papier-mache! So...

& Tensioner... hit the wwrong button before.

Ordered a new Bracket & tensioner arm.

I've cut away the lip circling the hex nut so I can now get that bit firmly in the vice but the next bit is my vice isn't fixed to a table so I'll need to drill some holes and get some long bolts...

I've sprayed penetrative oil inside. I'll let it sit for a while. I was deceived by the rubber washer into thinking there was a large hex nut threaded on the back but now I realise it's all one pice and the female hex side screws inside that. Already chipped a bit of the lip off trying to wedge...

The arm is spinning freely on the cap/hex nut on the other side. Do I take the large hex nut off too?

So does this mean I'm now in the world of 'FAAAAACK!!!'?

Maby I should buy a new damper. I'll remove it tomorrow see what happens... Do I unbolt the top first? When I get the new one how do I fit it?

Could I use a small clamp between the top and bottom of the spring loaded tensioner itself and squash it? I don't mean the elbow bracket, just the top spring itself where it connects to the engine and top of the elbow pivot.

I've got one of those hex plugs to do the high pressure pump with but I don't want to jump the gun. There's no slack to pull the belt over the pulleys. Is that what you mean?

Yes, I'm levering on the right to slacken on the left. I've tried putting the pulley slack on over the larger and smaller ones but to no avail. The belt I've used is Here... sure its the right one. tar...