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Originally Posted by LvR
Let me state the obvious and incur the wrath of the community:
This is not a job to experiment with - you either do it right or you don't do it at all.
A loose belt will at best allow you to retention it if nothing has happened - at worst it will jump a tooth or more or even come right off requiring an engine replacement at this age.
A too tight belt will at best allow you to slack off on the tension if nothing happened and it was only noisy - at worst the belt itself can break or more likely the nose of the crank can be broken right off (see the huge number of threads on this topic here already) also requiring an engine replacement.
Don't F**k around with this - if you are lucky to have a motor still running with an improperly adjusted belt and didn't understand the manual the first time round, make damn sure you do it right the second time round by removing the covers and following the manual - the fact that you guys are asking all sorts of funky questions leads me to believe any other method is bound to end in misery as a result of inexperience.  |
to be honest, i didn't actually do this by the FSM (except the torque spec on the locknut). I just put the belt on the same way my uncle did on my car.. i never saw them use any sort of force-measuring device so i didn't use one either. as far funky questions... well, wiking has some funky methods, but most of the time his endeavours are successful so i wanted to be sure i understood what he was saying. But given that i'm 99% sure i'm going to have to re-tighten the belt anyhow, yea, i'll pull the covers. It just figures that the one time i underestimate the necessary level of precision of something is the one time i pick the WRONG thing to underestimate.