[mkiv] Serpentine Tensioner

[Shawn Davis]

Unless you consider a socket wrench and a cheater bar a trick, there's no
trick.  In fact I've never removed the battery to do this, and certainly not
the radiator.  Just get yourself a pipe about 4' long and of the appropriate
diameter to fit over your socket wrench or breaker bar.  That allows you to
easily move the tensioner and fit the belt with the other hand.  A second
person working the pipe while you work the belt also would make it easier
but is by no means necessary.

Good luck,

Shawn

On Jan 25, 2008 8:36 AM, Glen Elliott <mouseworks at mouseworks.com.au> wrote:

> Folks, the serpentine tensioner I was talking about and having all the
> trouble with, is the big, external one. Having removed the battery and
> attached a wrench to the centre bolt of the wheel, I can depress the thing
> only so far and it doesn't seem to give me enough slack to fit the new belt
> back on.
>
> Is there a trick to this, short of pulling out the radiator?
>
> Thanks
>
> Glen
> TT in Austraila
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