Take the water pump pulley off and then put on on the belt and it can be moved back onto the water pump
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working on old cars is a painAnd... I give up. Called a mobile mechanic as I'm going to end up shearing one of these bolts.
working on old cars is a pain
I used to blame myself for not being able to figure out seemingly simple things, until I watched a video of some australians working on a german car (in germany) moaning about rust throughout because things don't rust in australia
When things have been in place for a while they have a tendency to stay that way over here
considering even bicycles have tensioners, definitelyIt was nowhere near this hard on a 1.3. These last run of K11 don't have an idle tensioner or anything, given how fiddly it is it seems like a step back in terms of design.
Going to take the belt back out and refit the psa pump properly in the morning and hopefully learn something from this mechanic in the afternoon.
considering even bicycles have tensioners, definitely
let us know how it goes on when you know, no doubt the knowledge will save one of us
Aye thats how I thought it should work which is why I'm so sure the belt I have is too small. My PAS pump moves maybe 15mm but no more and it wasn't enough to get the belt on.It's a twat with the pas tentionor and pivot bolts, when I did mine I couldn't get mine one so did the water pump pulley then tightened via the pas pump same as the alternater one,
Beats the cr12 them idler pulley are crap
Naa tbh it's abit of a pain but a simpler and more reliable setup tbh
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