Thanks, Don. I have looked at the manual and the individual parts (tensioner) to get a better idea of where everything is located.
I am pretty sure I can find it once I get under the hood and look closely. It's just not as obvious as some of the earlier M103 engines that I recall, or the diesels. It's a really tight place to work in, and I want to be careful and not go in there and break something... On a related note, and for today's humor: For whatever reason, on Friday I was really stressing out about replacing this belt and the possibility that it might break before I got the replacement from Rusty. I called him mid-day on Friday and played voice mail tag with him without ever talking directly to him. While I knew that he would come through, I was just envisioning my son in the car with it dead on the side of the road.... I slept poorly on Friday night and had several dreams, none of which were significant. However, in one of the dreams I was walking down a street when I came upon the 300E parked on the side. Why I did this, I don't know, but I unlocked the car and got into the passenger side and sat down, like I was waiting on someone. I turned to my left, looking over the driver's side of the car, and on the dash in front of the steering wheel was a Febi box (why Febi? Who knows? Its a dream!) I opened the box, and inside was the poly-V belt for the car and an invoice from Rusty! I don't recall anything beyond that - maybe I was able to go back to a deep sleep because I knew I would get my belt.... So the "Q" comes through - even in my dreams! Dan On May 14, 2012, at 5:04 PM, OK Don wrote: > IIRC, which I might not, yes, there is a mechanical adjustment on the > spring tensioner - kind of like the pivoting arm that releases the spring > for the tensioner on the 60X engines. Similar in concept, not execution. > You have to turn that nut/bolt, whatever to loosen the tensioner enough to > swap the belt. IIRC again, I don't think I ever saw it, found it by > following the manual, and expecting it to be whether the arrow pointed. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
