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Posted by RayF (more from RayF) on Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:55:28
In Reply to: Did you let the tensioner expand fully, or did, Bill Homer [Profile/Gallery]
, Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:28:35
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Rsfeller:
You might have read up on how to do this. (Places to do this are on here (do a search) or on the Quasimotors web site, except that's harder to find these days. Do a search on here on how to get to the Quasi site. Also, maybe on the Townsendimports web site.) There are two things you might know, or maybe not, that will make this easier.
Help #1 is, knowing that you put a long breaker bar and socket on the tensioner pulley bolt, which is LEFT HAND thread, and apply force counterclockwise and just keep pushing. VERY SLOWLY, while you keep the pressure up, the tensioner piston will compress. So slow you can hardly feel it happening. If you push fast, the resistance gets stiffer and it feels as if it's impossible. Hold the force on, and have faith.
The tool Bill H. mentions is help #2. If you took this apart without cutting the old belt, you would use this tool - - it's something pretty easy to make at home, a piece of say 1" angle iron about 6 inches long, and drill two 1/4" holes in it, 4 3/4" apart, then put two 1/4" bolts with nuts in the holes. The bolts should be 4 1/2" apart between bolts. This tool fits on notches on the tensioner, so once it's compressed, taking it apart, you can hold it compressed till reassembly.
But an extra helper holding the tensioner all the way compressed, while you put in the bolt for the idler pulley, works as well.
Make sure the belt is down into the grooves in all the pulleys before you start the engine, it can be off track and you can mess up your new belt.
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Posts in this Thread:
- 3 hours into a serp belt replacment, what is going..., rsfeller, Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:42:28
- Been there. A couple of thoughts..., Noel, Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:06:19
- I'm going through that now, trying..., Alfredov, Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:34:14
- Re: 3 hours into a serp belt replacment, what is going..., GPost, Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:41:01
- we'll the part that is misleading in 2 different..., rsfeller, Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:18:35
- Did you let the tensioner expand fully, or did, Bill Homer , Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:28:35
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