I've put this in Discussion rather than Technical as it is for interest sake.
Not to be advised.!!
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And that will be £55 + VAT sir, an hour labour :p
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Mind, thats one loose fanbelt in the first place.
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Ah don't spoil the illusion.
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Can't do it with tights that quick!
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whats a washing machine doing on a motoring forum
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I remember watching Wheeler Dealers where Ed China (him of the oddball cars such as the motorised sofa) put a heavy duty industrial glove on and stopped the belt driven fan with his hand to gain access to something on a running engine.
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Ed China
Genius he is!
I know TV isn't the same as real life, but he does some cool stuff on Wheeler Dealers.
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Used to do it all the time on the road, as I'm sure most breakdown guys did.
Usually the original belt was a mile back down the road. Didn't need to have the engine running, Just remove the king lead or something, put the belt round the crankshaft and water pump pulleys. Hold it on the alternator pully and jam a screwdriver between the belt side and the pulley wall. get the owner to try and start and , ping !, on it went.
Saved a lot of time in the rain or on the hard shoulder !
Ted
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I remember watching Wheeler Dealers where Ed China (him of the oddball cars such as the motorised sofa) put a heavy duty industrial glove on and stopped the belt driven fan with his hand to gain access to something on a running engine.
A Ford Capri. He wanted to stop the fan to check that he'd fixed the leak on the exhaust manifold.
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If it was a fanbelt, where was the fan?
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If we're going to be pedantic about it, it took less than 15 seconds.
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this was pretty quick too, wouldnt want to go too far in it tho
www.youtube.com/watch?v=te48ucoEvFI&feature=related
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Nothing exceptional about the actual 15 seconds. On my Punto 1.3 Multijet - you just pull back on the auto adjuster - slip the old poly v belt off and the new on. With a few practice sessions I bet that could be done in under 15 seconds.
Not with the engine running though!
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It was cheating.
a) The new belt was too loose. There is supposed to be 1/2 " sideways movement on the longest side, which is pretty "twangy" on a new unsoftened (cold) belt. The one in the clip is visibly loose.
b) The new belt will almost invariably be shorter than the old, because as the old has worn and stretched in use, it will have been adjusted to keep the tension correct. So it ought to be almost invariably the case that the adjustment needs slackening off again to get the new belt on.
In those true circumstances, if you force on a new belt it will quickly wear the water pump or alternator bearings.
It might be a good emergency method though if you carry a spare WORN belt rather than a new one.
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LOL, when I had a BMW, I used to stop the engine, sprag the belt, flick the starter, take off the old one and replace it spragged on the last pulley with wet kitchen roll and then start the engine. Sometimes it took 2-3 goes.
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If it was a fanbelt where was the fan?
On the other end of the generator, inside the fan housing?
Wonder if that bloke has lots of bent screwdrivers and a few dents in his head....
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