Soviet

Good point. If people could reply back with mileage driven since sandblasting, what their driving style is, and also what oil they use that would be awesome.

Chuck S

Preventive maintenance is best practice.

Items with short service lives should be replaced before they wear out. And they should be replaced with parts known to not wear out (cough .. Biillman GenX TCT).

-- Chuck

Rob Bowerbank

And I'm tired of it. I've been using a dremel sanding method I found on youtube several years ago and it fixes the TCT problem for probably 15k miles of regular commuter-type driving before I have to do it again. Cheap and easy, but I worry about wearing out the bolt threads from removing and refastening it so often.

I have found that using high-quality full-synthetic oil makes it last longer. I think my cheapness of going with conventional oil for so long contributed to my regular TCT repairs.

I'm currently in the process of replacing it with a Billman's TCT (once I can actually do a PM to him). I am also only doing full-synthetic oil changes since the car is running so much better with them.

Billman250

Dremeling or hand sanding the worm gear only destroys it. Just the act of taking the tensioner in and out is why your noise subsides.

Rob Bowerbank

I won't press you for whys or what's the differences...

Doesn't matter because soon all will be well with the new Billman TCT!

Rob

Jggysk2

Did you change the TCT as DIY? If not, where did you go to get this changed out?

Thanks

JR

Chuck S

DIY. Easier than changing the oil. Takes 10 minutes.

Jggysk2

Do you have a link or video that was helpful in changing it out?

Did you change at a certain mileage or wait until there was a TCT issue?

Soviet

Jggysk2

Soviets to the RESCUE!!!!!