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- 220d (115), 190d (201), c63 (204), 220ce (124)
I must be missing something really obvious here.. this is on a 190d 2.5 (OM602, same as 603)
Its the girlfriends car, i noticed when topping the oil up that the v-belt was only half on the tensioner pulley and visually you could see the tensioner was right on the pi$$. Infact the belt was just about fouling the fan blades. So as a temperary measure I remove the fan blades as they are not needed anyway.
Next chance I got I found a used tensioner and fitted it and again you could see it was bolted on on the pi$$ still, needless to say as soon as it started the belt jumped straigh back to its half-on position. I have a friend that works in GSF so I 'borrowed' a new tensioner incase it was the bearings in both the old ones gone sloppy and I didnt even bother starting the engine, this tensioner was also on at an angle. I have now refitted the origional again and left it how it is, just waiting for the belt to snap...
Its the girlfriends car, i noticed when topping the oil up that the v-belt was only half on the tensioner pulley and visually you could see the tensioner was right on the pi$$. Infact the belt was just about fouling the fan blades. So as a temperary measure I remove the fan blades as they are not needed anyway.
Next chance I got I found a used tensioner and fitted it and again you could see it was bolted on on the pi$$ still, needless to say as soon as it started the belt jumped straigh back to its half-on position. I have a friend that works in GSF so I 'borrowed' a new tensioner incase it was the bearings in both the old ones gone sloppy and I didnt even bother starting the engine, this tensioner was also on at an angle. I have now refitted the origional again and left it how it is, just waiting for the belt to snap...