Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:05:40 -0500 From: "Valjean" <jvaljeannospamamcharter.net> Subject: Re: Saab 9000 Belt Tensioner Restraining Tool
If you send it to me now, I promise to return it promptly. By the way, Ampro sells a serpentine belt tool (through Advance Auto Parts, local to me). Have you seen one? It's here, too: http://www.partsamerica.com/PartDetails.asp?SourceArea=&SourcePage=SEARCHRESULTS&MfrCode=APO&MfrPartNumber=T70024&CategoryCode=3412 "The Malt Hound" Fqmdnb_Vu7Zu9r7fRVn-gwnospamphia.com... > > "Valjean" <jvaljeannospamamcharter.net> wrote in message > news:uVHUd.2095$vd4.250nospam.lga... >> Okay, how do you know it is, please? It now sounds so much simpler to >> just relax the tension and restore it using a ratchet/breaker bar. Next, >> where did you get the metal strip (and what kind of metal did you use, >> since that seems to be up for grabs)? From a machine shop? >> > > I know it is because I have used the tool many times. The advantage of > the tool is that it will hold the tensioner in the compressed state while > you fit the belt over all the pulleys. You then compress the tensioner > slightly and remove the tool and everything should be all set. Yes, you > can do it with 2 people or try and do it with two hands, but I find the > tensioner difficult enough to compress that I don't like holding it with > one hand while fitting the belt on with the other. > > I used a piece of steel and two bolts, each fitted with the appropriate > nuts, that I picked up at a hardware store. > > -Fred W >