urgant assistance needed again

20aveowoo07 · Post by **20aveowoo07** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 5:15 am

as you may have read in my previous post I did my water pump today. I put tension on as was in the instructions, however this made the belt sing like a birdy and wear on the outside. Should I be lining the pointer to pointer on the tensioner. I am getting too much tension the way rthe instructions say. Please help

20aveowoo07 · Post by **20aveowoo07** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:19 am

I mean timing belt not water pump, what's the best way to get proper tension if the method I stated in the first post didn't work?

Big Jeff · Post by **Big Jeff** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:11 pm

tension is done control by the auto tensioner above your water pump (i think i know it is on mine 1.6)

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 12:36 pm

check the how to section for a topic about the timing belt replacement... look at the step of tensioning the belt

the belt is tensioned by the water pump indeed but the correct amount of tension depends on centering the arrow on the tensioner

MMamdouh