john_anch_ak
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I've done a search on this and so far have only fried eyeballs to show for it.
I'm replacing my serpintine belt and when reading the Ford manual it says to ease the pressure off the belt tensioner by inserting a 1/2" breaker bar into the belt tensioner and pulling clockwise to ease the pressure off so I can finish routing the belt to all of the pulleys. When I look at the belt tensioner and to the place where this 1/2" square slot is supposed to be all I see is a threaded hole, nothing even remotely looks like there is a place to use the
1/2" breaker bar.
I have a 1999 Cobra SVT and per the Ford factory manual it is an "early production" model. The manual shows pictures of both the early and late production belt tensioners and the early belt tensioner picture clearly shows the 1/2" slot for the breaker bar, but again all I have is a threaded hole where this 1/2" slot is supposed to be.
Has anyone seen this before? It's even hard to get something in there to pry on it so I can route the new belt and I don't want to screw anything up by doing it that way.
It's summer time in Alaska, (which is damn short), the sun is shinning, the skies are blue, and my Cobra is sitting in my garage not going anywhere until I get this taken care of!!
Thanks for any assistance!
John
I'm replacing my serpintine belt and when reading the Ford manual it says to ease the pressure off the belt tensioner by inserting a 1/2" breaker bar into the belt tensioner and pulling clockwise to ease the pressure off so I can finish routing the belt to all of the pulleys. When I look at the belt tensioner and to the place where this 1/2" square slot is supposed to be all I see is a threaded hole, nothing even remotely looks like there is a place to use the
1/2" breaker bar.
I have a 1999 Cobra SVT and per the Ford factory manual it is an "early production" model. The manual shows pictures of both the early and late production belt tensioners and the early belt tensioner picture clearly shows the 1/2" slot for the breaker bar, but again all I have is a threaded hole where this 1/2" slot is supposed to be.
Has anyone seen this before? It's even hard to get something in there to pry on it so I can route the new belt and I don't want to screw anything up by doing it that way.
It's summer time in Alaska, (which is damn short), the sun is shinning, the skies are blue, and my Cobra is sitting in my garage not going anywhere until I get this taken care of!!
Thanks for any assistance!
John