Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:18:38 -0400 From: KeithG <noonenospamay.com> Subject: Re: Smoking Auxiliary belt (fan belt / serpentine belt)
The 9000/NG900/9^3/9^5 have a serpentine belt with an automatic tensioner/idler pulley. This 1 belt carries all the aux load (PS/AC/alt/WP). I dunno if it is a 15k or 25k, but if it goes, you are dead in the water. Good insurance to replace it and keep the old one in the trunk just in case. and, on all of these, replace the pulleys at 60kmi regardless of what the Saab manual says. Saab/GM's position is that it is an 'indefinite life' part which is completely wrong. It is usually not the belt that fails, but this/these pulleys which sieze, throwing the belt. KeithG > I have a 1985 900 which destroyed a belt in the middle > of nowhere in Montana prior to 1989. I replaced the belts > at the time of the incident and haven't thought about them > or done anything about them since. Do they really need to > be replaced every 15K miles?
