

| Subject: | Replacing Belts |
| From: | Jim Felder |
| Date: | Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:41:34 -0500 |
As for your original question, you can do this yourself. I've done it some time ago. Your job will be made easier not having an air conditioner to contend with. Just get the right belts (you can assume yours are stock for your year car if nothing's been modified) and take off the front one to get to the back one. Have an appropriate stick to use as a lever--and a friend if you can round one up--to help retension the belts. A hammer handle works for me. Don't get them too tight or too loose. Pay attention to the bentley manual and to the tension of the belts before they come off, at least you can use that as a "not looser than" guide when the new ones go on. Tensioning belts is something the shop can POTENTIALLY do better than you, but I've never had it done by a shop in my life. You can always retension if they slip or squeal, just don't tighten too much. Jim
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