Fanbelt tensioner?

[Andy B]

I could in daylight yes,what do i look for?

Do you have a Haynes manual for your car?
If so chapter 1.8 fig 6.12 shows you the pulley that you're looking for.

[iggy21uk]

This is the aux belt tensioner    




Picture courtsey Of J Seaman

[Markjay]

Hasn't Markjay got a picture of it somewhere?

Sorry AA, beaten to it by iggy21uk.

However I can offer something else which may come in handy when putting everything back:



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[JamesV6CDX]

Mate, sod Vauxhall, I'm only 30 mins from Bristol, I"d gladly pop down and help you replace that tensioner/pully and belt. It's a doddle of a job, if it's just pulley and belt, then 10 minutes, if it means replacing the tensioner, still less than an hour, and that's if it doesn't play ball.

PM me if you want and we'll sort something out. I won't charge you any more than a couple of gallons of petrol for the trip and a cuppa tea

[Omega111]

Thanks m8 pm sent

[Auto Addict]

Thanks m8 pm sent

Bet you're glad you joined this forum

It's magnificent the way people on here go out of their way to help.

[Omega111]

Yes i am m8 thanks
I was amazed at the speed of the responses lol

[TheBoy]

I'm please someone is coming down to help you do it. You'll see how jobs, initially beyond your skills, aren't that difficult after all, and will hopefully give you the confidence to try other small tasks, and keep the £s away from the dealers and in your beer fund

[Omega111]

Lol would be good to do some things myself

[tunnie]

I'm please someone is coming down to help you do it. You'll see how jobs, initially beyond your skills, aren't that difficult after all, and will hopefully give you the confidence to try other small tasks, and keep the £s away from the dealers and in your beer fund

I'll second that.

When i first started doing work on my megga, i found it difficult getting a wheel off!!. TheBoy can confirm it was on his driveway!

However thanks purely to the fantastic people here I have:

Bought two other Omega's just as project cars!! I bought them usually though crap eBay auctions (poor pictures, rubbish description ect) and sold them for a profit, in one case doubling the cars value!!

My advice is, Omega's are so damn cheap get your self a really old one (if you have a little spare cash say £300) and practise on that. By doing so your not working on your pride and joy or main car, so you can really have a bash. Good job too cause i disabled the brakes on my first project car by mistake!  

[JamesV6CDX]

i disabled the brakes on my first project car by mistake!  

Yikes! how?

[stevebubs]

Had to replace this on mine a year or so ago as the bearing was maing a god awful noise. 15 minute job with a 15mm spanner....probably 30-40 minutes if you need to replace the whole tensioner as getting to the bolts is trickier...

FWIW, Camberley Autofactors were by far the cheapest place I could get the kit from at the time.

[rpont]

I'm sure I've seen a torque setting for the idler pulley retaining nut but I can't find it in Haynes. You have to lever the idler with the nut and it always tightens up so I loosen and re-torque the nut after fitting a new belt. I can't imagine a dealer would bother doing that but it won't do the bearing any good.

[JamesV6CDX]

Good point.

All being well we're arranging to tackle this Thursday evening. We'll post up when we get it sorted

[Omega111]

Good point.

All being well we're arranging to tackle this Thursday evening. We'll post up when we get it sorted

I pmd you m8