V8Q accessory belt adjust

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 PP> Roger Galvin has battery problems that he's ascribing to poor
 PP> accessory drive  belt adjustment - he has about 1.5" of play in the
 PP> thing.  He had the undertray 
 PP> off last night but can't see how to adjust it.
 PP> 
 PP> It looks like muggins is going to wind up on his back in a pub car
 PP> park again  tonight.  To save too much investigative work - can any V8Q
 PP> owner (3.6 PT, if  that makes any difference) tell me how this belt is
 PP> adjusted? 
 PP> -- 
 PP> Phil Payne
 PP> Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club


     It's not adjusted.  It's stretched via a heavy duty spring
     inside the passenger side engine cover.  Either the belt is
     too long (stretched?), it's threaded wrong, or the tensioner
     somehow "jumped" the spring (very unlikely).  Pull on the belt
     and you should see the tensioner move twords the right. Under
     the tenstioner pulley, there is a small hole to insert a
     tool (drill bit works fine) to hold the tensioner while you
     changed the belt.  Check the belt routing.  It's also
     possible that if someone worked on the car, the "tool" they
     used to hold the tension may have broken in there, or they
     just forgot to remove it?


     BCNU

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