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Just in case anyone else reads this - there is an easy way to hold the tensioner closed that doesnt require special tools to be made up.
Compress the tensioner with a spanner, or two spanners hooked over each for extra leverage. Get someone to do this and tell them to just apply steady pressure and the tensioner will compress very slowly, you cant really see it moving, but the belt will go slack, so it is , just slowly. Using a spanner means it wont (shouldn't) slip off because the 'push' is inline with the bolt head.
Now, secure the tensioner by twisting some fencing wire around it and tightening it up with a pair of mole grips. there is a slot in the tensioner that the wire can locate in, can quite remember the exact layout, but all will be obvious if you look and think.
Put another loop of wire on, just in case.
Now put some sort of lever between the pulley and some other solid part (sorry for vagueness) so that when you undo the big bolt that you have just been swinging on to compress the tensioner it doesnt just lever the tensioner taught, thereby breaking the wire loops. I used a big screwdriver with a C spanner handle underneath it to spread the load across the width of the pulley.
Remove the tensioner wheel, old belt and now try and remember how the new belt goes on, thats a different problem though...
Do this:
Before you compress the tensioner, crack the bolt undone, so that when you later come to undo it the threads will be unstuck..
Position the wire around the tensioner before compressing it, you dont want your fingers anywhere near this in case the spanner slips off,
posted by 170.148.215...
, Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:06:14
, Tue, 4 Nov 2008 04:36:05, Tue, 4 Nov 2008 04:37:40
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