It's a good trick, sometimes the "janky" method is superior to the "approved" method, hah. One thing I've noticed doing this method for years as a mechanic that might help a newbie is that usually one pulley will be easier to get at that another, and if you are not an absolute beast from lifting weights, make it easy on yourself and pick the easiest one, it might be down low instead of up high like this vid. Also, some of the pulleys will have a shorter rib on the edges than the others, making it easier to slip the belt over, so look for that too, when picking which pulley to leave for last when putting that belt on.
🙏🏽 super cool info The thing about TH-cam that’s cool is not always the video, but the comments that help people understand the limitations and exceptions for a video Often times I learn way more in the comments than I learned from the video so I usually read the comments and watch the video and try to pick up tips Hopefully people got those tips because those are very good tips I never even thought about it before, but you could almost be upside down under the car and pull the belt on from somewhere below I know when I had a sob it took me long time to figure out the car needs to be in the air, and the only way to work on a Saab is from underneath the engine Once you get up underneath the sob and look at it, it’s the most incredible layout and it’s so aerodynamic and clean. It’s amazing. But since the sob was designed by airplane engineers, and they wanted you don’t see it from the top as much as you see it from the bottom and that’s exactly where it should be because that’s where the air is flowing through the engine area But trying to work on a sob from the top is damn near impossible
my 2010 volvo S80 2.5l had a broken Torx tensioner bit (which is used to set and unset the tension on the belt when installing/removing) and then I broke the Torx bit on the new one. definitely will try this method of 'manually' lifting the tensioner.
on my 06 VW Golf SDI the alternator internal bearing froze and made the pulley impossible to spin - even the engine couldn't rotate over. got me stuck at the side of the road. belts are dangerous, lots of forces are involved.
checking back in, it didn't work lol I couldn't lift the whole tensioner with just the belt and a rag. on that specific volvo P3 you gotta take tensioner out, put it in a vice, manually operate it and jam a bolt or nut in the space to keep it open. when installing the belt and it's in place just pull out the bolt, tensioned, done.
Gonna give this a try on my Scion XB!
It's a good trick, sometimes the "janky" method is superior to the "approved" method, hah. One thing I've noticed doing this method for years as a mechanic that might help a newbie is that usually one pulley will be easier to get at that another, and if you are not an absolute beast from lifting weights, make it easy on yourself and pick the easiest one, it might be down low instead of up high like this vid. Also, some of the pulleys will have a shorter rib on the edges than the others, making it easier to slip the belt over, so look for that too, when picking which pulley to leave for last when putting that belt on.
🙏🏽 super cool info
The thing about TH-cam that’s cool is not always the video, but the comments that help people understand the limitations and exceptions for a video
Often times I learn way more in the comments than I learned from the video so I usually read the comments and watch the video and try to pick up tips
Hopefully people got those tips because those are very good tips
I never even thought about it before, but you could almost be upside down under the car and pull the belt on from somewhere below
I know when I had a sob it took me long time to figure out the car needs to be in the air, and the only way to work on a Saab is from underneath the engine
Once you get up underneath the sob and look at it, it’s the most incredible layout and it’s so aerodynamic and clean. It’s amazing.
But since the sob was designed by airplane engineers, and they wanted you don’t see it from the top as much as you see it from the bottom and that’s exactly where it should be because that’s where the air is flowing through the engine area
But trying to work on a sob from the top is damn near impossible
my 2010 volvo S80 2.5l had a broken Torx tensioner bit (which is used to set and unset the tension on the belt when installing/removing) and then I broke the Torx bit on the new one. definitely will try this method of 'manually' lifting the tensioner.
Damn- good luck. That’s a new one.
Had a friend who lost the Idler Pulley on a running vehicle when the bearings froze & broke off. Weird one.
on my 06 VW Golf SDI the alternator internal bearing froze and made the pulley impossible to spin - even the engine couldn't rotate over. got me stuck at the side of the road. belts are dangerous, lots of forces are involved.
checking back in, it didn't work lol I couldn't lift the whole tensioner with just the belt and a rag. on that specific volvo P3 you gotta take tensioner out, put it in a vice, manually operate it and jam a bolt or nut in the space to keep it open. when installing the belt and it's in place just pull out the bolt, tensioned, done.
Nice trick!👍