Wear indicator for A/C & Alt belt?

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Old 11-15-2003, 03:44 PM
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Wear indicator for A/C & Alt belt?

Can some one who knows or can find out, from a Helms manual, tell me if the A/C & Alt. belt has a wear indicator? I was looking down into the automatic tensioner area and there appears to be a mark cast into the arm that's between a slotted set of marks on the tensioner housing.
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It's actually the indicator for the tensioner pully spring.

How's the blower working out for you?
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Blower is great, people can here it under the hood alittle, chicks really dig it , I also just installed my Mugen cooling sys. stuff and the trans cooler goes on Sunday. I know pretty crazy to go with out the cooler this long, I guess I got one of the good trannies, it's still running excellent.
One problem though, when the A/C comes on the tensioner starts vibrating and making noise. Twenty different reasons come to mind, have any other s/c'ed cars had this happen? I'm gonna start cheap by replacing my belt. Anyone have any ideas?
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Originally posted by Chemmech
One problem though, when the A/C comes on the tensioner starts vibrating and making noise. Twenty different reasons come to mind, have any other s/c'ed cars had this happen? I'm gonna start cheap by replacing my belt. Anyone have any ideas?
It's not hard to install the belt so that it's off by a rib. I did this with the blower belt and at high rpm it had a high frequency vibration. Once I figured it out and fixed the belt, it was never the same, until I replaced it. Once I had the belt on the A/C pulley off a rib, but I caught it myself before I ran the motor so all was good.
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How much was the belt? (I'm soo Cheap!!)
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I replaced the blower belt for under $10.

I'm not sure how much the big one would be.
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