OK, here's my story...
A couple of thousand miles, I did my first timing belt change together with a friend. I bought the Annworx tools (which are of great quality BTW) and the change was completed within a couple of hours. Mainly it was delayed cause I had to drive to Sears to buy an impact socket for the flywheel.
Anyway, we didn't have a proper tensioning tool, but from reading I found that several of you had luck using the 'twist' method.
After the new belts were put on, the balance belt seemed to whine a little, so we loosened her up...She still whined. I thought that was normal on new belts and decided to leave it like that. Feeling the balance belt, it seemed to have the proper tension (yes, at that moment I didn't know it needed to be THAT loose...).
Today I took my car in my local Porsche shop to have a new Magnaflow cat welded in. Since the car still whined a little (after 2000 mi since belt change), I asked my mechanic to check the belt tension. I had a feeling it was too tight.
Well...I couldn't have been more right!!! After loosening the tension, one (in best case scenario) of the rollers is doing wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.
Long story short...I have to bring Erica in again tomorrow morning, so they can take the belt off and inspect the rollers.
Always the same crap...I try to do something myself to save money, and I just screw it up and make it works...How typical. I guess some things you really have to leave to the pro's.
I've done everything to my car (brake overhaul, suspension, swaybars) myself, but I guess I had to screw up at one point.
Oh well, I'm gonna have them do to her whatever she needs. At least I know everything will be fine again after that. I hope I can be an example for other people without a tensioning tool...
I just needed to vent a bit...I'm sad.
