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1980 242 Alternator belt tensioner? Help please!

posted by  billy242 on  Thu Jul 30 01:05 CST 2009
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I wasn't planning on replacing my alternator as it's charging just fine. I just want to install a tensioner on it to help keep the belts from loosening up. Not sure why they are loosening up so much lately. I am using my breaker bar as a lever between the alternator case and the engine block to put significant tension on the belts while I tighten up the top alternator bracket bolt. I am tightening that bolt about as tight as I think a poor little old 8mm bolt can be tightened without breaking. Yet the belts will be loose in 2 or 3 days...

I guess I will just go outside and see if I can figure out by myself how that tensioner can be installed, there can't be too many ways for that thing to go in there.

billy242
1980 242DL with lots of GT and IPD stuff






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