Reply to "Erica needs to get hosed....."

So, that's what I did this afternoon. Earlier in the day, I was thinking about the IPSCO nifty idler setup and I came up with a flaw that was rather niggly......

While this moveable standoff is GREAT for simple adjustments, if one was ever to need a new bearing or pulley, you would need to remove the center retaining bolt.....at which time you would hear a little "klunk"....or not.....which is that moderately priced little piece falling somewhere in the bowels of your car!!!!

The original standoff, while difficult to adjust, didn't have this problem of losing the rear fastener when changing bearings as all that biz took place out front!

After thinking about it a while.....there were two ways of fixing this....
1) Have IPSCO make up a new threaded block with metric threads to match the original, machine out the standoff, and get a new metric bolt. But this still didn't completely solve the issue unless you used the original standoff...
OR
2) Do something similar, inspired by what I found on Ford 8.8 rearends, used to retain the nuts for the disc brake backing plates while installing. They had a "no-rotate" tab on them for assembly (or disassembly!) that is pretty slick! No wrenches needed!

So, I found a piece of scrap steel (Old generic muffler shop muffler hanger) with a nice big hole in it. Like this.....