[Main 9000 Bulletin Board | BBFAQ | Next by Date | Post Followup ] Member Login / Signup - Members see fewer ads. - Latest Member Gallery Photos Cheap wrenches and tight nuts :o) Like This Post: - Subscribe to Daily Digest for this Bulletin Board Posted by Joe [Email] (#444) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Joe) on Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:57:00 Alert me when someone posts in this thread: Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup

OK. Serpentine belt on my '94 9000CS is off. I didn't take it off, the belt shreaded off just as I was pulling into my driveway so no mechanical ramifications from it. :o)

SO I go buy a new belt, thinking 20 minutes max. Three days later I've been humbled, yet again, and reminded this isn't a Ford we're talking about.

I've deducted I need to take off the plastic wheel of the tensioner to get the belt on. I first tried taking off the whole assembly to overhaul it and clean it and re-grease the spring in the shock. I've since found this sucker must have been factory pressed on. It ain't coming off. I've even put a pry-bar on it, trying to push it off the bearing. I don't want to screw anything up so thats as much as I'll try this "mini-project."

Fine. So I decide to try to take that plastic wheel off using two 19mm wrenches. DIdn't budge. I figure "Well perhaps this is reverse threaded." Try the other way. Didn't budge. (now look, I'm 220 lbs and lift weights. I'm no wimp). Really try to torque it counter clockwise (again 2 wrenches against each other). One wrench (the taiwan one not the Crafstman one) gives out and breaks.

Here's my question, because when I buy a new wrench, I'm going to go to town on it this time. Is this nut and bolt, holding on the tensioner pully wheel, regular or reverse threaded? I know '94 is an off year for the 9000 but does ANYONE know?

Thanks so much y'all.

Joe in Knoxville, TN

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• Cheap wrenches and tight nuts :o), Joe , Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:57:00 <-- Viewing This Message
  • Re: Cheap wrenches and tight nuts :o), Joe , Sun, 2 Feb 2003 23:19:01
    • Re: Cheap wrenches and tight nuts :o), DaveW, Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:37:18
      • Re: Cheap wrenches and tight nuts :o), Joe , Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:51:51
  • Re: Cheap wrenches and tight nuts :o), Anders OZ, Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:59:36
  • Hey neighbor, sounds like ..., Quasi, Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:16:31
  • Reverse thread....., zeke, Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:10:33
    • Beg to differ on that spring, Quasi, Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:12:54
      • Could be right about the spring, but also......., zeke, Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:20:12
        • Re: Could be right about the spring, but also......., Joe , Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:41:37
          • You're right, I'm wrong....., zeke, Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:55:49
          • Re: Could be right about the spring, but also......., DaveW, Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:15:29
            • Re: Could be right about the spring, but also......., Joe , Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:43:43
              • Re: belt routing....., DaveW, Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:24:38
              • The pulley on the tensioner has left had thread..., Gene N , Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:57:24
                • Yup, tensioner is left handed..., EricG, Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:01:38

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