If you're ever considering delaying changing the belts and tensioners on a Twinspark engine, think again. Not only do the tensioners seize and break the Cambelt but the tensioner toothed wheel can wear...see below!

The black tensioner wheel shown below is the old type, these have been superseded by white tensioners which don't appear to suffer from such excessive wear...make sure yours is white!

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