300tdi belt failure

Hicap phill · Oct 11, 2018

Found using a small ratchet strap to hold pulleys in place helped.
I have done call outs for friends at the side of the road to do water pumps. Also Remembering big bars for the tensioner helps

Glad your enjoying spannering & learning.

discomania · Oct 11, 2018

HeywoodFloyd said:
Yeah I have never really had an issue getting the belt back on - not sure why people have trouble with that.

The biggest issue I had was undoing, and doing back up, the pulley bolts, especially the idle pulley with the way the pulley's face is inset rather than flush. I'm sure there's an appropriate tool out there to do it easily, I just used a bent screwdriver wedged in between 2 bolts - and a lot of swearing - and some knuckle skin loss.

For tightening the bolts (and indeed undoing them), get them fairly tight by holding the pulley and doing them up, then fit the belt, then use the belt held down hard over the pulley you want to fully tighten or jam it with another bit of belt and do up the bolts. Works every time.

potus · Oct 11, 2018

HeywoodFloyd said:
Yeah I have never really had an issue getting the belt back on - not sure why people have trouble with that.

The biggest issue I had was undoing, and doing back up, the pulley bolts, especially the idle pulley with the way the pulley's face is inset rather than flush. I'm sure there's an appropriate tool out there to do it easily, I just used a bent screwdriver wedged in between 2 bolts - and a lot of swearing - and some knuckle skin loss.

I luckily had an air impact gun, worked a treat on these bolts. I couldn't shift them without it, the roller kept slipping.

jamesmartin · Oct 11, 2018

potus said:
I luckily had an air impact gun, worked a treat on these bolts. I couldn't shift them without it, the roller kept slipping.

for the sake of future readers, impact guns do make pulley bolts easy to undo and to tighten but a socket and bar/ratchet and a lever against the socket and another bolt head works well too

300tdi belt failure

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