Yes, pull the shroud clips and pick it up to free the bottom tabs.
Then you can move it around to aid threading the belt over the fan
and around the pulleys.
If you have not done so recently, I'd also recommend checking the
bearings on the idler arm first. Then if you need to change it too,
you may as well do the belt then, because you will need the fan and
shroud out then. If the bearings are bad you can feel it by taking
loose the spring and shock and moving the idler arm up and down by
hand.
x
You can thread the belt around the fan blades, between the bald tips and
shroud. It takes a few minutes to figure out where, but it wasn't that hard.
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Larry T <[email protected]> wrote:
Howdy -
Thx again for all the help in my problem with my sluggish 300D - I wish I'd
ch anged the main fuel filter 1st!
Anyway - about the subject -my current Belt has about 80,000 miles on it
and is showing lateral cracks across the ribbing. I rec'd a new one from
Rusty last week and need to start planning the job.
I read the MB WSM procedure and was wondering if I need to remove the fan
shroud (or lay it back out of the way as much as possible) and removing the
fan assy?
I had all that stuff out last time because of the other things I was doing
but don't need to remove all that stuff this time.
What should I do?
TIA
LarryT
91 300D
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OK Don
2001 ML320
1992 300D 2.5T
1990 300D 2.5T
1997 Plymouth Grand Voyager
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