recently bout a new timing belt kit, head gasket & valve cover gasket with tensioner gasket along w/ cam locking tool (waiting for my new oem cat converter to arrive on tuesday need that to pass smog)

totally forgot to mark my chains before removing them from cams!! i now that you have to count 16 rollers in between the cam marks.
the only problem while transferring the cams and chain and tensioner with cam locking tool on it.. i accidentally dropped it and the cam locking tool slipped off tensioner!!!!!! now when i went to install cams back into place and after having re-installed cam locking tool and releasing it, it doesnt do anything, it seems not to have the tension any longer!!

my question is will my chain tensioner still work?? or is it broken or fixable??
any input would be greatly appreciated as soon as possible becuase i have to pass smog on wedsneday morning or sooner and can put the car back together till i find out if my chain tensioner is any good the way it is now??

 

If you need more time, I know that in Cali you can pay for your registration even if you haven't passed smog yet. That way it won't keep going up if you wait and that will buy you some time to get your car fixed.

 

yeah i went to dmv last week and paid it but the thing is im also trying to register it under my name. and last year they didn't have to smog it until now, thats why i bout a new cat converter, which was about the only thing wrong with the car that why i bout it and needed new tensioner gasket
they said i had 20 days to fix it
since my tags expire on the 20 of this month and i bought the car on the 1st of this month....
would the 20 days to fix it start once the tags expire JULY 20th, 2011
or
once i bought the car and the date on the pink slip JULY 1st, 2011????

 

Hmm. You should have asked them when you were there. You might want to try calling them just to make sure. Worse comes to worse, if you can't fix it yourself in time, you might be better off towing the car to a local Audi mechanic.