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(Message started by: wickedteen on Feb 22^nd, 2007, 7:14pm)

Title: drive belt tensioner
Post by wickedteen on Feb 22^nd, 2007, 7:14pm

i took the main tensioner of today but it now feels like its locked and wont move, does anyone know how to get it moving freely again...........

Title: Re: drive belt tensioner
Post by taliban on Feb 22^nd, 2007, 7:30pm

http://www.fordscorpio.co.uk/drivebelt.htm this should tell you......

Title: Re: drive belt tensioner
Post by wickedteen on Feb 22^nd, 2007, 8:00pm

well it does but dosnt, if that makes any sense, before i took it off it moved, now its off it dosnt move

Title: Re: drive belt tensioner
Post by scorpio_man on Feb 22^nd, 2007, 9:08pm

hi there

when you say it's locked, is it back on the car?

someone sent me a photo of one with a cut out/sticky out bit. hard to explain, see photo (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/scorpio_man/scorpio%20bits/M41000041.jpg).

maybe yours is at the same bit?

hth

Title: Re: drive belt tensioner
Post by wickedteen on Feb 23^rd, 2007, 9:17am

yes its the same

Title: Re: drive belt tensioner
Post by wickedteen on Feb 23^rd, 2007, 9:17am

sorry its not on the car

Title: Re: drive belt tensioner
Post by mr._floppy on Feb 23^rd, 2007, 10:58am

Do you mean the belt roller does not spin when spun, or the tensioner spring has siezed and does not move up or down ?

Title: Re: drive belt tensioner
Post by wickedteen on Feb 23^rd, 2007, 12:36pm

not sure if is seized as it worked when on the car, but now it is off the car i cannot move it

Title: Re: drive belt tensioner
Post by scorpio_man on Feb 23^rd, 2007, 1:35pm

hi there

don't think you can move it, off the car. it takes a fair bit of pressure on it to move it, so you can change the belt.

give it a bit of oil and refit it. see if it works then.

hth