Brand new belt is squeeling

[NEexpat]

Been awhile since I've posted. Frankly, car has been great so..........however thought I'd share my belt story.

Changed my serpentine at 90K miles, have since rolled over 100k, used an OEM belt and the DIY tensioner mod found on the forum.

Really nothing to it, about $40 all in belt and tensioner, and maybe 15 minutes with a dremel modding the tensioner.

Prepped the alternator bolts a couple of days in advance with some PB blaster, loosened right up.

Couple of minutes to thread around the wheels, initial tension using the "twist" method mentioned already in the forum. Tightened up the bolts, found the lower bolt very easy to deal with using a six sided stubby wrench.

Oh yeah, gloves. Make sure you wear gloves. Don't want to slip off anything using any amount of force down there.

About a week after install I got a "chirp" on start, went and loosened the bolts, couple of turns on the tensioner, checked the "twist", tightened it up, no problems since.

cheers.


PIC - https://www.dropshots.com/NEexpat/da...04-05/16:16:35


*Still trying to post the link to the video here, however if you go to the above link and click on 2018 in the right hand column and scroll down a bit you can see the video there. Anyway...............................