Thread: Shredded Fan Belts

Thanks guys for your input,

the reason i didn't do a search, for squealing fan belts, is because it doesn;t, or didn't squeal.
Now that i look at it, the wearing of the back of the belt because of wear on the tensioner, must be the precursor to squealing, or in my case total belt failure.

McR, I was going to put a post on when the belts went , just to let others know what could happen, but had a rethink and changed my mind. Different wear pattersn cause different probs, yours went backwards ands Eddo's went forward, maybe the lessor of two evils.

On my a/c cmpressor I had to pull take the pulley of, then the clutch and the 'ferrite' magnet thingy, i only had an inch of wire poking out, resoldered and back on, the only hard bit was retensioning the idler puller, another three handed job.
Have about 3 hours befoe the parcel turns up and i can replace the tensioner.
In one respect i am glad I noticed it here and not when on one of my trips.

Another one to keep in the memory bank,
maybe another one for the mods to think of, something like ' Wear options and the symptoms'

thanks again to all.


john

John, the tensioner is a Dayco, should be able to source through the local parts supplier cheaper than the Landy importers.

Just swapped out a 300Tdi one last week (which looks very similar to yours) as it had started to seize on the nylon bush yet there was heaps of tension left in the spring.

BTW, I've always used Gates belts and have had to replace them far too frequently, cracking in less than twelve months and frequent squeaking, both the poly vee on the Landy and the vee belts on the Patrol.
Gone to Dayco across the board and so far so good.

also remember the waterpump. The water pump can leak and cause the bearing to stop and with that the belt dont go. I would spin the water pump while I had the belt removed. It did it for me