Damaged engine drive belt

[vc commodore]

spare parts sale people these days have no idea , i can go into repco and ask for a rocker cover gasket for a holden straight 6 red motor , then only to be asked what year and model of car, what engine size ect ect
i know there only kids but years ago they were older guys with trade experience, and knew what was what
and would know straight away what you wanted and give you the right part and other stuff you might need and advice on the job
how things have changed

Get that all the time too....I even ask for Valiant parts and the knobs start looking under "Holden".....I have even had them order in Commodore parts for my Valiant....

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Whats the trick with putting one of these on. I imagine you route it around but what is the easier pulley to slip it on last?
I looked at it and tensioner gives me just enough movement to slip the old one off the water pump or idler pulley. It seems it will be very hard to put the new one one with so little give in the tensioner pulley

 

[Sabbath']

Whats the trick with putting one of these on. I imagine you route it around but what is the easier pulley to slip it on last?
I looked at it and tensioner gives me just enough movement to slip the old one off the water pump or idler pulley. It seems it will be very hard to put the new one one with so little give in the tensioner pulley

Slide it over the water pump. No ribs to climb the belt over.

 

[Sabbath']

spare parts sale people these days have no idea , i can go into repco and ask for a rocker cover gasket for a holden straight 6 red motor , then only to be asked what year and model of car, what engine size ect ect
i know there only kids but years ago they were older guys with trade experience, and knew what was what
and would know straight away what you wanted and give you the right part and other stuff you might need and advice on the job
how things have changed

Lol. The 202 was last used in a Holden car over 30 years ago. As if it's realistic to expect every person in every store to have an encyclopedic knowledge of every motor ever put into a vehicle in Australia.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Slide it over the water pump. No ribs to climb the belt over.

Thought so.
Will give it a crack on the weekend. Cheers

 

[.05]

Lol. The 202 was last used in a Holden car over 30 years ago. As if it's realistic to expect every person in every store to have an encyclopedic knowledge of every motor ever put into a vehicle in Australia.

would you find it realistic to be asked what make and model when simply asking for 3/4 heater hose clamps lol made me laugh too

 

[Sabbath']

would you find it realistic to be asked what make and model when simply asking for 3/4 heater hose clamps lol made me laugh too

A hose clamp has exactly what to do with your first point about them asking what vehicle a red motor went into?

And as far as what they asked you when you asked for a hose clamp, i have no way of knowing what the conversation went like for them to feel the need to qualify what make and model it was. It's possible you didnt make yourself clear that you just wanted a hose clamp and they may have thought you wanted the heater hose (there's no need to specify you want a 3/4 heater hose clamp, you can use the clamp elsewhere, it's universal) as well.

Point still stands, it's ridiculous in 2018 to walk into a generic parts store and expect them to instantly know that when you say you have a "red" straight 6 Holden Motor, what you're talking about.

 

[Immortality]

Most people at parts stores are taught to look up part numbers via the vehicle license plate, fairly much anything else and they are lost as most seem to have little real understanding of what the actual parts are/do etc.

I use parts on cars that are not original to that vehicle as most people do when modifying cars, it's a real head **** trying to explain what you want when all they know is the vehicle registration number search function.

Back in the day most parts guys were ex mechanics or people who had been in the trade for decades, these days they take joe blogs off the street with no actual experience which is fine if they taught them some basics but all they do now is the registration search and pray....

 

[Skylarking]

....Back in the day most parts guys were ex mechanics or people who had been in the trade for decades, these days they take joe blogs off the street with no actual experience which is fine if they taught them some basics but all they do now is the registration search and pray....

These days it’s likley they are also rather young and on minimum wage whereas back in the day, the older knowledgeable blokes were payed for their skills.

We are currently in a transient and soon we’ll be speaking to some AI-bot via the web which has been trained by the same people who can only do those rego part lookups

 

[Immortality]

Probably, some parts I already buy online and get delivered, especially when it's free delivery and it saves a frustrating trip through traffic to my suppliers store.