American racing solutions

[old01cobra]

I just bought a American racing solutions tensioner. Looks beautiful shipping was extremely fast. Installation was a breeze. How in the hell do you set it??? It’s shipped in the release and locked. Is it that little Allen on the bottom?

Thanks guys

 

[01yellercobra]

What do you mean its shipped in the release? Are you moving it the right way? Those tenioners usually take more effort to move. I used to use my 36" breaker bar when I had the Thump tensioner.

 

[old01cobra]

the factory tensioner bolted down has tension on the belt. I need to pry the factory one to the drivers side to remove tension then pull the belt off a pulley. This ARS tensioner when bolted down has no tension on the belt at all the belts completely loose. I can’t pry it either way it’s like it’s shipped in a lock position

 

[old01cobra]

Anyone reading this and if anyone buys one you need to grind down the pin that comes on it and tap a bolt hole where the factory tensioner has the alignment pin. 2001 cobra front covers are single bolt tensioner but slightly different heads up.

 

[JGDogg10]

I had to do the same thing with my thump racing tensioner when I first got it. Ground the bump off and then tapped and threaded in a round head bolt just big enough for the hole where the tensioner tab goes in. Basically reclocking it to the passenger side a little.

 

[01yellercobra]

I had to do the same thing with my thump racing tensioner when I first got it. Ground the bump off and then tapped and threaded in a round head bolt just big enough for the hole where the tensioner tab goes in. Basically reclocking it to the passenger side a little.

I thought they fixed that by now. I ended up drilling a new hole in my timing cover because I didn't want to drill my brand new expensive tensioner.

 

[old01cobra]

Nope they didn’t fix it. I feel you 600 dollar tensioner and pulley gave me slight nausea thinking about drilling it out. They said 1 in a 100 run into this probably not worth Cnc a new piece ohh well. Us Na 4v guys get forgotten about.

 

[01yellercobra]

I remember the issue with the Thump was that it was made for the GT. They just assumed all single bolt set ups were the same. I remember seeing this issue pop up on M1R a lot as well.

 

[JGDogg10]

Yea they told me the same thing, "about only a handful of them needed this mod", and it just happened to be mine. lol. Looking through their product line now, they dont even sell a single bolt tensioner anymore. Makes me a little nervous since I have a single bolt from them. hah

 

[01yellercobra]

Yea they told me the same thing, "about only a handful of them needed this mod", and it just happened to be mine. lol. Looking through their product line now, they dont even sell a single bolt tensioner anymore. Makes me a little nervous since I have a single bolt from them. hah

Whatever a handful. They all needed the mod. They're customer left something to be desired for me. I wanted to order a pulley one time and couldn't get a straight answer. I ended up going with Metco.