My experience was with an '83 and a '78, both kinds of tensioners, new and old belts over a period of about 8 years...
-Curt Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 19:41:22 -0700 From: Craig <diese...@pisquared.net> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] 240D belt squeal Message-ID: <20131226194122.dffbeb2aaf90bf65dea39...@pisquared.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 17:16:31 -0800 (PST) Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Dunno but they all do it. I got so I tightened every old change which > was every other month when I was commuting a lot. A new belt helps a > little but only until you let it squeal once... I never had any belt-loosening problems when we had the OM616 engine in our '82 240D. Are you sure you have the correct clamping hardware for the alternator tension? Craig _______________________________________ http://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
