Re: V-belt question

[Daniel Jones <captaudi@ma.ultranet.com>]

There are two differant tensioners,  one uses a 10mm allen and the other
uses a 17mm socket.  Feel around below the pulley to see which you have
first.  Then rotate the tensioner with a fairly long ratchet.  I don't find
it necessary to use the drift.  Depress the tensioner fully with one hand
and use the other to slide the belt off the P.S. pulley.  Snake the belt
out and the new one in,  redepress tensioner and slide belt back on. Check
all pulleys to make sure the belt is centered before starting engine.

HTH
Daniel Jones 84 4ksq x2
Dealer tech.

At 09:47 AM 8/1/99 -0600, you wrote:
>I'm trying to replace the v-belt on my 95 A6Q and, of course, the diagram in
>the Bentley doesn't look much like what is on my engine.  From what I can
>deduce, however, it appears that all I need to do is loosen the tensioner.
>Two questions before I loosen everything up though:  
>
>1.	It says to use a 10mm hex (allen?) to loosen the tensioner by
>turning it "downward", which is clock-wise.  Is this correct?  Can somebody
>verify that this is a 10mm allen bolt before I go out and buy one?
>
>2.	It says to use "drift 3204".  What is this?  It looks like there is
>a small hole on the perimeter of the tensioner roller that this would fit
>in.  What is this for?  Does it just hold the tensioner in place while
>tightening?
>
>TIA for any advice anybody could provide.  This is probably a bad sign that
>I have so many questions about such a simple procedure.
>
>-Jeff
>1995 A6Q
>
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