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Bottom pulley, belts or whatever it might be?

Engine/Gearbox questions and discussion
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Post by mills » Sun Jun 16, 2013 3:15 pm

mercutio wrote:did you have the vented bonnet on before mills?

no mate, it used to happen before I had the cf bonnet on. it doesn't happen all the time, mainly when wet or really cold .

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Post by mercutio » Sun Jun 16, 2013 3:16 pm

was gonna say it might have been caused by water dripping
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Post by Ailfenergy » Mon Jun 17, 2013 6:30 pm

Angus wrote:Ailfenergy - check your belt tensions against the specs in the manual, even just roughly. As a very rough estimate, if you can twist the belt 90 degrees halfway between the crank and alternator/PAS pump, it's not tight enough. You get to know how tight belts should be eventually.
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Post by Angus » Mon Jun 17, 2013 6:48 pm

Sorted, then?

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