Recent content by EQFish

Ended up going Gates, but found out my lower smooth pulley was 90mm, which was causing the reading to be thrown off. Replaced with a 70mm pulley and now within the gauge. If I had a million threads, you'd think I'd have my commy sorted by now! :eek:

My bad, I'm new to all this. I appreciate all the responses I've been getting, so thanks to everyone.

Contemplating getting one of those $40 belt tensioners. Any bad experiences with them?

Just looked, the smooth tensioner and the serrated V idlers are small and the same size, the third smooth idler, one just left of the AC pulley is than both. My belt lenth is 2830 At first I also thought the belt sizes were too long, but the previous belt which was slipping was also 2830.

This is an old thread I know, but if you've just fitted a new belt and it's still in the renewal range, would that mean the tensioner's gone stiff?

My tensioner is looking like this atm —— < (Triangle) —— —— —— I got a new Repco belt done about about 15,000km ago. Seems a bit short lived to me. Wanting to find a more long lived belt, Hoping it’s not the tensioner being stiff.

Did your balancer make a noise when it happened? Like you lost power as you felt the belt slipping? Only wondering cause mines doing something similar...

What are people's experience on the lifespan of their VT parts in kms, assuming it's from the factory, DFI modules, Coils, Fuel pump, Belt Tensioners, steering pump etc? I'm guessing by the 200,000km mark pretty much all sensors would have been replaced, and potentially the coils and DFI and...

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Hello Hello! It's about time I asked for help; My beloved VT is starting to get to me o_O The Car: VT-II V6 Auto, 200k on the clock, 2nd owner. The Symptoms: Rough Idle - Engine is generally quiet and smooth running, starts first time every time and runs a dream when it wants to. At Idle it...