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quick guide to gti aux belt
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giveitsomebar
PostPosted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:43 am Up
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hi can someone give me a very brief walkthrough on how the remove the aux belt and put it back on including how the tensioner works? im quite handy with the spanners so shouldnt be to much of an issue

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:50 am Up
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13mm spanner on the tensioner bolt, push spanner towards the steering wheel, that will release the tension, then simply remove belt. the tensioner then just unbolts off. you will have to take drivers wheel and arch off to gain access. Also make sure you draw a pic of how it goes back on. really easy tbh Smile

tensioner is basically a pulley on a spring

 

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make a note of the route of the belt,

put a socket & ratchet or spanner on the bolt on the tensioner, when you twist the ratchet it will move the tensioner one way and it will loosen the belt, while holing on to ratchet remove belt.


then do same to put new belt back on ..

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Cheers pal thats what i wanted to hear!
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ill put a how to up aswell while im at it
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This sounds really easy. I need to do mine too. Is yours squeaking?
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yeah squeeling noise and the belts started shreading on the farside
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Mine's squeeking ever since we replaced the actually pulley that was clicking... fml!
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i did this yesterday and started taking pictures but i got that p**sed off i give up taking pictures..

when replacing the belt make sure you go to a respectable car parts place as it was a 2 mile walk / run from my house and the first time i got there i give him my reg he give me a belt which was half the size of the other one! ( i hadnt taken the other one off by this stage ) he said nope thats right thats a 206 gti with air con so off i run got home took the other one off quite easily. i took the pulley off to the side of the tensioner as the tensioner isnt really visible straight away its just tucked up behind the chassis but is accsessable but i didnt care to much just wanted it off without cutting it! so i run back with the old belt and he measured it up with another and give me another one off i went again i got it home and had the tensioner at full compression and it still wouldnt go on! by this stage i was well p**sed off got the tape measure out and the belt he give me was 15mm to short! so after the 3rd visit i got the right belt (1740mm for a gti 138 with aircon) and it went on quite easily without having to put the tensioner under full compression

so good luck to who ever has to still do this, it is fairly simple just make sure you get the right size belt before you start!

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Glad you got it sorted in the end. I sold the 206 on Sunday so I saved myself a job Razz
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did this fully solve your squeeling noise, by just replacing the belt?
 
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it did for me as the belt had jumped a groove and was rubbing against the engine

if you turn the lights on and it squeels more or on full lock it will be the belt loose if it always does it no matter what and doesnt change pitch then one of the pulley bearings has probably gone but you cant check them till the belts off anyway..

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On mine I aint sure if it is the belt as it sounds like the tensioner, is there any way of telling for sure?

Has anyone taken this off?

If so how easy was it? As I did one on a rover once and ended up cutting a bore hole in the chasis to get to it.

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