[s-cars] How-to: AAN Serpentine Belt Tensioner Rebuild

[Paul Heneghan]

Hello Fred & JR and others.

My S6 Avant developed a serp belt tensioner problem hours before a holiday
in France. Fortunately, I was able to swap in the one from my wife's saloon
(took about 15 mins), so the holiday went ahead.

Now I'm back, and need to fix the tensioner. Apparently Fred Munro wrote up
a how-to on replacing the bearing. Was this the bearing for the idler wheel
(which is fine), or the bearing for the tensioning bit (which is in a really
bad state)?

Any BTDTs or pointers to the pdf gratefully received.
Paul

1995 S6 Avant (UK spec)
1996 S6 (UK spec)

p.s. now I know why the serpentine belt broke last month - the tensioner was
pressing the edge of the idler into the middle of the belt.  Bits of the
belt ended up EVERYWHERE (except inside the timing belt cover - lucky!).