I do have another question. While rolling around under the car, I
found a part attached to the cross member just behind the oil pan. In
the middle of this cross member is a stud/bolt that faces the oil pan.
Right now, it has bare threads at one end. Is there supposed to be a
nut on it?
. Needs a 13mm and 17mm but I
forget which is for which.
-Curt
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 21:30:55 -0800
From: Kevin Kraly kr...@comcast.net
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: Re: [MBZ] '77 240D alternator belt adjustment woes
Message-ID: 0DA3ABAA403EA7AD7CC8C77DE8A3@KDogHP
Well, therein lies the problem. I only see two bolts, the toothy
one at the top and a pivot bolt at the bottom, both currently loose.
Where would the third bolt be?
I went out and took a close look at the Frankenheap. There are
three bolts. The toothed one, the pivot bolt at the bottom,
I can't move it by hand to get any tightness on the belt.
You don't, you use a box-end wrench on the toothed bolt head.
Set the belt tension that way, hold it in place with the one
wrench while you tighten the nut on the back with another wrench.
Don't move the toothed head any while doing
Oh, and as I recall the toothed bolt can get out of sync
on the rack and not have full travel. (It only has teeth
partially around it.) So make sure the teeth can engage
the full length of the travel on the rack.
-- Jim
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After hours of fiddling with the alt, I was able to get the third bolt
loose, the one inboard from the toothed adjuster bolt at the top. It
actually comes in from the front like the other two with a nut on the
backside. Once I was able to get it loose enough to allow the bracket to
move with
I fought with the thing for nearly 3 hours with no success! I got the bolts
loose, tried to move the adjustor bolt with the teeth that slide the bracket to
tighten it, but can’t figure out the proper technique to get it tighter. It
seems looser ow! What am I doing wrong? Is there a proper
I fought with the thing for nearly 3 hours with no success! I got the
bolts loose, tried to move the adjustor bolt with the teeth that slide
the bracket to tighten it, but can’t figure out the proper technique
to get it tighter. It seems looser ow! What am I doing wrong? Is
there a proper
Well, therein lies the problem. I only see two bolts, the toothy one at
the top and a pivot bolt at the bottom, both currently loose. Where would
the third bolt be? Does it come in from the front with a nut on the
backside like the other two? It's been a while since I've dealt with one of
