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[Strontium Dog]

Hi I'm new here and to Omega's.

I posted this in the newbie section but now I've moved it here!

I have just bought my first one and 400miles later it has thrown the fan belt. I can't post on the tech forum and have searched for an hour now for any info on how the new belt goes on. The one I have been supplied seems way too long but GFS assure me it is the right one. I'd really appreciate any help esp. a picture or diagram as to how it goes.

The car is a 2.5 turbo deisel with the BMW engine on an M plate

Cheers for any help everyone and sorry to be asking questions on my first post, Si.

[Andy B]

The Boy/Jamie is the man to ask ..... he Loves his diseasal Omega.

[Strontium Dog]

All I need is a picture of the route the belt takes! Anyone?

[Omegatoy]

there is a pic on here somewhere, but basically you push it through the tensioner arm and around the pulley and back out if you see what i mean, before you put it round all the other pulleys once you have put it through the arm how it fitsis easy to work out, if you dont do this the belt appears to be a few cm to long!!!

[Strontium Dog]

there is a pic on here somewhere, but basically you push it through the tensioner arm and around the pulley and back out if you see what i mean, before you put it round all the other pulleys once you have put it through the arm how it fitsis easy to work out, if you dont do this the belt appears to be a few cm to long!!!

Hmmm! This one is a good few cm to long! It's not like I'm not used to working on engines either. My other car is a 300bhp 2ltr Toyota as well as owning Mini's and a Pajero. I build my own mods and engines etc and compete in autotests and 12 car rally. This should be a doddle [smiley=embarassed.gif] I just can't seem to see how I can lose the slack for the life of me. I must be having a stupid day or something. Lol!

GSF say that according to 3 books they refer to they have given me the correct belt [smiley=cheesy.gif]

[Strontium Dog]

Please!!! somebody put me out of my misery and post a picture or diagram of how this goes. I've spent 3 hours now trawling the interweb for a picture of the front of this engine.

I'm gonna go totally dippy soon

[Omegatoy]

there is a pic on here somewhere, but basically you push it through the tensioner arm and around the pulley and back out if you see what i mean, before you put it round all the other pulleys once you have put it through the arm how it fitsis easy to work out, if you dont do this the belt appears to be a few cm to long!!!

Hmmm! This one is a good few cm to long! It's not like I'm not used to working on engines either. My other car is a 300bhp 2ltr Toyota as well as owning Mini's and a Pajero. I build my own mods and engines etc and compete in autotests and 12 car rally. This should be a doddle [smiley=embarassed.gif] I just can't seem to see how I can lose the slack for the life of me. I must be having a stupid day or something. Lol!

GSF say that according to 3 books they refer to they have given me the correct belt [smiley=cheesy.gif]

lol have been known to work on a few cars meself and it did stump me the first time i did one as it had snapped, so had no rteference to how it went!!! gsf would say that cos the belt is the same throughout!!
as said push a loop through the tensioner arm round the pulley then it all fits around the others wish i knew hw to draw on here but i havent worked that out yet!!!!

[Strontium Dog]

Ok I'll have a look in the morning with fresh eyes. I'm sure I must be daft or something. It's the cold you know! I'll post up how I get on tmrw.

Cheers, Si.

[shanjon]

i believe this is what you require
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13666355@N00/3034933770/sizes/l/ and it only took 5 mins to find on google,  did you realise the same engine was also used in range rovers, thats how i found the diagram

[TheBoy]

Confirmed that shanjon's diag above is right for Omega. If you have A/C, there is a seperate A/C belt from crank to A/C compressor that needs to come off first.

[Strontium Dog]

i believe this is what you require
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13666355@N00/3034933770/sizes/l/ and it only took 5 mins to find on google,  did you realise the same engine was also used in range rovers, thats how i found the diagram

Oh ziperty doo dar! You is da Man.

It looks quite obvious now you come to look at it. Doh! What did you enter into google?

Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
 

Thanks to Omegatoy too!

[shanjon]

i typed in range rover 2.5td fanbelt on google search , my father in law had a 2.5 td omega and we found out then that the same engine was used obviously in the bmw,s , the omegas and the range rovers

[Strontium Dog]

All done now and running fine on B100 bio deisel! This engine just like most others I have tested goes better on my home brew diesel than it does on the stuff you buy at the pumps!

A happy bunny I am! [smiley=cool.gif]

[Omegatoy]

Good news mate!!! once you have looked at it its easy isnt it!!! just not so easy to type out how to do it!!