Thread: 300Tdi serpentine tensioner spanner

I use a socket on a breaker bar

me too

the current version of the snap on spanner I use is

XDHM1415

it also perfecly fits the nuts on the prop shaft.

Or just use your 15 R/O with your 17 R/O necked over the open end of the 15
The angle change is perfect and the extra leverage makes life easy

S

Originally Posted by roverrescue

Or just use your 15 R/O with your 17 R/O necked over the open end of the 15
The angle change is perfect and the extra leverage makes life easy

S

That's what I've been doing. Maybe I need to learn how to do it without the 17 slipping and nearly causing me a mischief

I just use a standard 15mm ring spanner ???

Rick, I'm thinking that the OP means that his standard spanner isn't long enough to put enough weight (torque) to untension the belt.

Ranga, you can always put an appropriate sized bit of pipe over your spanner to increase the torque that you apply.

Those extra long ring spanners (like Blknite references above) can be quite handy (even better with a little bit of offset) .

Rick,
Why type so many words?
You could have just said.

I have big guns.



Steve - with piddly little pasted on stickfigure arms who uses leverage to effect.