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.

 

It's actually the indicator for the tensioner pully spring.

How's the blower working out for you?

 

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?

 

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.

 

How much was the belt? (I'm soo Cheap!!)

 

I replaced the blower belt for under $10.

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