tris Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 i have an onza singlespeed bike. the problem is that the tensioner (onza tensioner) keeps coming loose or something and slackiong my chain. the tenisoner is not spring loaded and has one of those orange rollers. after about 3 hours riding the chain becomes really loose, REALLY LOOSE....slowly but surely it gets looser. it ataches to the mech hanger and the rear skewer bolt. i tighten the shit outa it but still it comes loose. whats its problem?? im goin to buy a spring loaded tensioner if i cant fix this, any ideas how to stop it slacking??cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolver Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 take a link out of your chain and then use it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunt man t Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 i have an onza singlespeed bike. the problem is that the tensioner (onza tensioner) keeps coming loose or something and slackiong my chain. the tenisoner is not spring loaded and has one of those orange rollers. after about 3 hours riding the chain becomes really loose, REALLY LOOSE....slowly but surely it gets looser. it ataches to the mech hanger and the rear skewer bolt. i tighten the shit outa it but still it comes loose. whats its problem?? im goin to buy a spring loaded tensioner if i cant fix this, any ideas how to stop it slacking??cheers my onza does the same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basher Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 Proberly because your useing a skewer and you need fun bolts that you cant really tighten up. Try tightening the mech hanger bolt up alot tighter. if that doesnt work then unless you get something like a pro2 with bolts you can tighten up loads theres nothing you can do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 Take a link out?But yeh, you'd need bolts rather than a squewer I'm guessing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gee* Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 tend's to happen with these tensioners!, when your riding in future every say 5 minute's just turn round and check your tension ifit's starting to go abit push the tensioner firmly down so chain tightens back to normal and your sorted, just get into a routine of doing this every so often and you'll be fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.Wood Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 tend's to happen with these tensioners!, when your riding in future every say 5 minute's just turn round and check your tension ifit's starting to go abit push the tensioner firmly down so chain tightens back to normal and your sorted, just get into a routine of doing this every so often and you'll be fine Though if you can push it down with your fingers it ain't gonna be tight enough...Mine was fine when i used a QR and the secondary bolt on the dropout on my old DMR tensioner. I then changed to a pro2 hub and tightening it with just the dropout had the problems you lot are having.I then decided to bolt it in using the pro2 bolt and it worked pretty well, only coming loose every couple of rides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben John-Hynes Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 (edited) Take as many links as you can out of the chain, but so that it still fitsput the tensioner on but put it under the chainso the chain runs over the top of it.then tighten the mech hanger bolt, cable tie the tensioner under the chainstay.tis what i did with my DMR one, and they're both pretty much the sameBenEdit: tell me if you want a pic! Edited March 5, 2008 by Benjaminge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squeaky2k8 Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 try tacking a link or two out that should sort your problem out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tris Posted March 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 yeah i tightened the crap out of it and if i did any more i would snap the mech hanger off. also it gradually becomes more slack, when i try and push it back down its still tight so i cant push it down again without undoing the bolt first.good idea about the cable tie, im goin to try that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben John-Hynes Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 (edited) yeah i tightened the crap out of it and if i did any more i would snap the mech hanger off. also it gradually becomes more slack, when i try and push it back down its still tight so i cant push it down again without undoing the bolt first.good idea about the cable tie, im goin to try that.you may need to make a slight modification to the tensioner though so that it can be pushed upyou may need to cut off the hole that the skewer goes throughthe bit circled redBen Edited March 6, 2008 by Benjaminge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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