Drive Belts - confused

[JoergMoeller]

Goord Morning,

I've to admit I never changed drive belts on one of my cars ... but yesterday we had terrible weather, the spare drive belts are flying around since a year and I was tired of the noise so I decided to change them ... I've removed some oft the plastics and quickly found the adjust bolt on the top right pulley (seen from front, drive belt connects to the steering pump). But I can't figure out how this bolt works. I've removed the bolt completely .. there's still tension on the drive belt. I've but it back in, to it's orginal location. While screwing I put a finger on the belt but didn't realize a change in the tension of the drive belt. I'm totally confused ... since the bolt seems to pull the pulley shaft to the outside and should become loose but it insn't ...

Hints are welcome ;-)

By the way: will the drive belts fit over the fan or do I have to remove it?

Regards Joerg

 

[macabethiel]

Belt Tension

Hard to figure the exact layout but it sounds as if you need to loosen the bolts that secure the pump so it can swivel and loose its tension if you get my drift. Might still need a bit of levering to make it slack if that makes sense due to rust build up etc.

 

[solarman216]

OK you have found the adjusting bolt but you also need to slacken the nut in the middle of the pulley, then it will be able to slide up and down, Rick

 

[Madmark]

Release the lower bolt of the pump

 

[JoergMoeller]

OK you have found the adjusting bolt but you also need to slacken the nut in the middle of the pulley, then it will be able to slide up and down, Rick

Will try that .. I was thinking that the bolt is fixing the pulley on the shaft ... :doh

 

[solarman216]

Release the lower bolt of the pump

This a 2.4, has separate adjusting pulley near the distributor, Rick

 

[rustic]

This a 2.4, has separate adjusting pulley near the distributor, Rick

I would go with Ricks advice, he is the expert on the 2.4 petrol engines, advice from owners of 2.7 TD diesels, have a different way of adjusting the tension of the belts. :thumb2

This certainly applies to the 2.7td. not sure about 2.4 petrol though.
yes, you can feed the belts over the fan a few blades at a time, keeping one end of the belt close to the hub centre.
At first, you think, how can this small belt go over this big fan... The first time you manage it, you think... that was easy.:thumb2

Good luck :thumb2