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Re: Water Pump R&R
Posted by Stephen Goldberger (more from Stephen Goldberger) on Fri, 12 May 2000 11:41:45
In Reply to: , Kok Chen, Sat, 17 Dec 1988 12:00:00 

*snip*
>Remove serpentine belt and tensioner.  (someone else should provide details, 
>but it shouldn't be too unintuitive...)

It shouldn't be, but it is.  The bolt that must come out to remove the belt
and tensioner is reverse thread, a fact which is not documented in the
Service Manual.

But actually the belt needn't come out - it just needs loosened.  On the
2.3, one simply pulls up on the belt until one can place a 'locking tool'
over the tensioner spring/damper - after that, just move the belt aside
until the job is done.  To remove the 'locking tool', one finds that
*tightening* that reverse thread bolt against the belt tension compresses
the tensioner.  then the locking tool may be lifted out and teh bolt
released.
Stephen Goldberger, Editor and Publisher
NINES, the magazine of the SAAB Club of North America
vist our web site at http://www.saabclub.com

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