302 Belt routing

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jhilla68

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Well folks, I can use some help. I just picked this car up about 2 weeks ago and I knew the tensioner/belt set-up was pretty hoaky. The car has the A/C and smog pump delete.

I've been poking around online trying to find a solution, and believe I have found a decent answer. However, I'm open to any suggestions you may have. The idea I'm currently kicking around is to take the tensioner apart and reverse it. Instructions seen HERE. Right now, to relieve the tension of the tensioner, it actually tightens the belt. As you can see, the tensioner is "bottomed out" against the tab.

So, is there any solution I'm over-looking to make things easier? Shorter/longer belt? Convert to a manual tensioner? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

With that said, here's the current set-up, please forgive my terrible MSPaint diagram:

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Sean said:
thats one of the better solutions I have seen over the years.
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So, take the tensioner apart, drill a hole, flip the spring, and I should be good with the tensioner functioning the proper way?

Thanks for your insight as well. The belt routing right now is pretty hoaky and squeaks on initial start up....it's driving me up a wall.
 
fiveohcrazy said:
He's lying....he has lots of issues....lol just not with his belt set-up! :thumbsup:
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:lol:

Thanks, fellas. I actually met up with mikesfastss last night and got another tensioner and he even had the summit brackets to relocate the PS pump. So, I picked both up off of him. I'll give this reverse tensioner a shot today, and if that doesn't work, I'll move the pump and try that out.

Thanks for the heads up, everyone. :thumbup:
 
:thumbsup: let me know how it works out.and buy the way the pics of the car don't do it justice it is one nice car
 
Why dont you just buy an alternator bracket eliminator and get rid of the tensioner all together? I will take a pic and show you it on my car looks alot better then having the tensioner and you dont have to fabricate the tensioner to work.
 
chayes7203 said:
Why dont you just buy an alternator bracket eliminator and get rid of the tensioner all together? I will take a pic and show you it on my car looks alot better then having the tensioner and you dont have to fabricate the tensioner to work.
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I'd definitely like to see this set up. I have underdrive pulleys on the car as well, so it's going to be a crap-shoot trying to find a proper sized belt.
 
No i have underdrive pullies on my car all i did was take the belt route it the way i wanted zip tied the left over and went to the auto parts store with it. I had them measure it and went with the one belt that was the closest to the size to what i brought in. or if your still worried about it get one size smaller when they measure it for you thats all i do no problems and also i dont have to make 100 trips to the auto parts store to get the right belt. you could also use some string route it and tie it and take it to the auto store and have them measure it.
 
Here are some pics of the kit installed. all you do is turn the rod in the middle to tighen or losen the belt tension. I only paid 20 bucks for mine. you can find them on ebay from anywhere from 20-60 bucks or just buy it straight from summit. and it's called March adjustable alternator bracket so for the wrong name earlier
 

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I also noticed you live in warren I do to. if you wanted we could meet up and i can show you how mine is. because i have the a/c delete bracket where it moves my power steering pump up to where the a/c used to be. just so you could get an idea of what it will look like all routed upped.
 
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