martymexico
Just knock the pin out of the old tensioner and press into the new one. Your lucky to have one to swap with, I got a new tension pulley but no pin or old pulley to steal from. I ended up lathing a pin to push in and stake from the back so it won't rattle out ..

I've just had a look at your van marty, you are highly skilled with your work, looks awesome, i have to do my own work on my van because i can not afford to pay a mechanic or a painter or any skilled labour, being on a pension with my disability ( cerebral palsy ) always try my best but in reality my best isn't always that good, just to keep it on the road, alot of people say to me why dont i get a newer car, but the newer cars always needs to be service by mechanics, i had a VY a few years ago, and i could not afford the $900 service all the time, and i find the little vans are genuinely easy to work on and keep going

about 5 years ago ive bought some genuine sundowner buble windows of a person on here and ive still havent got then installed yet ( scared of getting a panel beater doing it and damaging my dead strait panel, with all the past experiences with panel beaters over the past 20 years, get rust cut out of cars and come back with nothing fits as panels are welded in out of line or rusts back in a year or so, this is on my past cars, in the past 20 years HQ statesman, HQ SS (which i swapped a escort van for), last escort van