Ok so you fitted a genuine timing chain kit and you had the top tensioner fail after 10k miles, well done! So obviously this must of been down to your master tech skills due to the fact that the genuine nissan kits snap the lower simplex chains and the top tensioners on genuine nissan kits dont tend to fail at 10k, nissan would be well and truly screwed if that was the case. Id say thats more mechanic error tbh, maybe you didnt torque the bolt correctly, who knows? Tbh i dont really care.

As for alternative ideas, there isn't really any others is there? Its only ever billcar this billcar that. There needs to be other options, if your sore you spunked £300 on a kit that failed then another £1200 on a kit fitted by billcar then thats your problem, sort of ironic really considering you're trying to portray yourself as clever in your previous response and yet that dosen't seem very "clever" to me, maybe if i appeared on the forum earlier i could of opened your somewhat blinkered eyes to a money saving and just as effective option but never mind, ill still sleep.

Oh, and if you wanna pick up on typo's its 2 leg puller not pulley, hehe.

 

I will just point out that BGA have been going for quite a while. I see nothing about them that suggests they are anything like your typical Chinese eBay merchant. Let's not knock them till its been tried. It's what owners forums are all about.

 

I 100% agree mate, everything points to billcars kit at the minute and tbh it dosen't need to be, ive used bga a lot myself and have no complaints, ill update my experience with the kit once ive fitted and run the engine for a while.

 

Diydave ,,,,,, are you sure Milner kits are "genuine Nissan" ? They list their kit as "aftermarket" and indeed I phoned and asked when sourcing my kit ,,,, last year and they said kit was NOT Nissan

 

Indeed, I haven't had a genuine Nissan part from Milner, it all seems to be pattern.

 

Diydave ,,,,,just a quick point of clarity,,,,, the capital "NOT" was to highlight the fact and my suprise as I had been under the impression that Milners parts were usually genuine Nissan. I'm not into shouting, criticising or the personal digs that are in danger of detracting from a useful helpful forum.

 

Exedy clutches are OE, and really the best currently available.

 

Well awhile ago I asked about BGA KITS. Not because of their quality but more for personal preference on the YD engine. I'm not going to go into my job on here but I do sell BGA parts to the trade and we have near a 0% failure rate on their products. The % that have failed has been tested by manufacture which comes back with an extensive report and found to have failed because of fitting. - and as mentioned. That's a very small % compared to what I sell. I'm able to look into sales of the BGA kit that has been supplied for the YD engine and can say in the 3 years that I can look back through sales and warranty there has never been a failure reported.

This was good enough for me so I bought one for my self. About to have it fitted next week and it's being fitted by a local garage I know well who is under a scheme called Timing Excellence. This mean if the supplied kit fails either through part failure or is caused my fitting error, The parts supplier will pay for the total replacement of having that engine replaced or repaired at a book time fitting cost. So long as I get a VAT invoice for having the kit fitted, if it fails under this scheme. My warranty is with that garage, their warranty is with the factor, Their warranty is through the company that offer the scheme. And as it turns out, I know the scheme is a no quibble warranty.

 

Useful information, thanks for the insight.

 

Im re-heating this thread. What are the opinions now? Is anyone here with high mileage done on those? And please dont start with what billcar or someone else reported. Only personal experiences if possible
Thanks in advance

 

Some etiquette please on forums, if you want to dictate to other people then you are better off on Facebook.

 

Which part is lack of etiquette? I just asked for personal experiences as im aware of people passing forwards billcars and other nav specialists opinions without being involved in any way. Definitely had nothing wrong in mind by saying it