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Instructions
1. Turn the engine of the automobile off and ajar the hood. Secure the hood with the prop rod.
2. Fix your automobile engine coerce belts. Most ornament operate belts are driven by the Eccentric person shaft pulley and stretch across both sides of the front of the engine.
3. Gaze the belts by turning them sideways and looking for cracks, glazing or visible signs of fraying. You may not be able to adjust lingering belts. Belts that own lingering may not be able to be adjusted. Remove the band from the crankshaft pulley. It may be necessary to remove other accessory belts to remove the bad belt from the crankshaft pulley, depending on where it is located.5.
They Testament gain to be replaced.4. Change the belts by loosening the mounting and retaining bolts or nuts on the finery that it drives, using either a wrench or a socket wrench. Avail a pry bar or capacious screwdriver to pry the trimming In relation to the region, allowing the sash to loosen Sufficiently to come off the pulley.
Install the new belt by positioning it on the crankshaft pulley and then slipping it over the pulley of the accessory. Use your pry bar or screwdriver to pry the accessory from the belt to tighten the slack.
6. Adjust the belt tension so that there is no more than 1/2" deflection, up or down. Do not over tighten. Reinstall any other belts you removed and adjust them using the same procedure.
7. Start the engine and turn on the accessory run by the belt that you just changed. Check that the belt or belts that you removed are not slipping under the engine load. If there is a slipping belt, turn off the engine, readjust the belt and check again.
8. Remove the prop road and close the hood securely.
