Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 08:44:23 +0000 From: Grunff <grunffnopsam.com> Subject: Re: 9-5 (2.3l) alt belt?
Dave Hinz wrote: > My '99 9-5 (2.3l LPT) is misbehaving this evening. Symptoms seem to > indicate it's the belt that drives the water pump, steering pump, and > alternator - this based on the fact that I lost power steering, my > temp went up, and my lights got dim (and battery light came on). > > Luckily this happened about 2 miles from home so I took it gentle, > ran it to get up hills & turned it off to coast, and watched the temp > gauge which stayed mid-way up or lower. Took a while to get home that way > though, lots of cooling-off stops. > > I've never done that belt on this car before, any words of wisdom would > be more than welcomed at this point. I assume it's on the right-side > of the car, on that end of the engine rather than on the transmission > end, but I can't see a thing with that big brace in the way. This could > be interesting. > > Is this an above-the-car thing, or do I need to work from underneath > with the ramps? I'm going to google around but any pointers would be > most welcome. The following is based on my experience of 9000s, and looking at (but not working on) 9-5s. It is on the RHS, away from the tranny. On a 9000, the way you access it is by removing the inner wheel arch, which is a big injection moulded plastic panel. This gives you pretty good access to belt and tensioner. Replacement is pretty straighforward - slacken off the tensioner (on the 9k this is a separate pulley, so everything else stays in place), put on new belt, then tension up. Good luck. -- Grunff
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