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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: Mark 2 Mark on 18 September 2011, 19:10

Title: PAS belt won't tighten??
Post by: Mark 2 Mark on 18 September 2011, 19:10

Not sure if I'm being a bit dense here (probably!) but cannot get my belt tightened! First off I no longer have an adjuster bolt, for some reason it's just got a normal bolt through where this should be. I've slackened off the 13mm that you look straight down on in the bay, then slackened the bolt which normally has the adjuster on it. But the whole assembly is refusing to pivot, even with trying to lever it! Is there another bolt holding it that I can't see or is it just impossibly tight? Oh and there is adjustment room both up and down where the tensioner should be :-(

Title: Re: PAS belt won't tighten??
Post by: mk2bal on 18 September 2011, 20:25

Have you loosened  the one that sits almost in the water pump bracket, alongside the water hose, accesible from under the bonnet, a 13mm socket on an extension bar? The rest can be got at from underneath with a 13mm open ended or ring spanner.

Title: Re: PAS belt won't tighten??
Post by: Mark 2 Mark on 19 September 2011, 09:47

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=49436.msg877119#msg877119

Well I've loosened bolt 14 from the top, then also no. 20 too from below. I can't loosen no. 5 as I don't have one - just a straight bolt and nut (no.7 to 20) . Besides the other 3 bolts which hold the pump to the bracket I can't see anything else holding it or a reason it won't pivot up or down! :-(

Title: Re: PAS belt won't tighten??
Post by: Mark 2 Mark on 20 September 2011, 09:33

No one?! :-(

Title: Re: PAS belt won't tighten??
Post by: Ben Lessani on 20 September 2011, 14:42

You'll need to remove the whole pump and bracket. Then knock out #14 with a drift, lever the bracket apart then with a metal file, just take a little off the outside faces of the pivot point. Copper slip the bolt and re-fit, it should be nice and free then.

Also, go and buy #5 - you need it to tension the belt.

Title: Re: PAS belt won't tighten??
Post by: Mark 2 Mark on 20 September 2011, 15:01

Thanks Ben, and thanks for the guide too, I can't see any reason why it won't shift so must be jammed :-( Just thinking where to get the tensioning bolt from, imagine most at the breakers will be fused together from lack of use. How's the sale going on the Golf by the way?

Title: Re: PAS belt won't tighten??
Post by: Mark 2 Mark on 25 September 2011, 17:27

Does anyone know where to source a new tensioning bolt from, besides the scrappies? Cheers guys

Title: Re: PAS belt won't tighten??
Post by: clipperjay on 25 September 2011, 18:30

No point going to dealers just use a regular long bolt, you might have more threads but it will work, just grease the dam thing on before tightening up they allways rust due to the low position on the PAS pump.

Title: Re: PAS belt won't tighten??
Post by: Mark 2 Mark on 25 September 2011, 19:07

I haven't got a thread in the head of the bolt it attaches to though, the tensioning bolt setup has been replaced with just a reguular nut and bolt :-(

Title: Re: PAS belt won't tighten??
Post by: clipperjay on 25 September 2011, 21:37

Yes torque it up put the long bolt and a nut on top job done thats what 90% of us has done in the past you can stick a thicker washer on the mount hole and nut just to make sure there is better locking and minimal movement.

Title: Re: PAS belt won't tighten??
Post by: Mark 2 Mark on 29 September 2011, 14:28

Sorry to drag this up again but does anyone have the part number off ETKA for the PAS tensioning bolt please?