Serpentine Belt Removal - ZR-1 Net Registry Forums

ralph92ZR1 · 01-27-2007

Some advice please on removal of the serpentine belt '92 ZR-1. It should be a slam-dunk, but with the belt free from all pulleys it appears it will not pass under the throttle body and the air-conditioning compressor pulley?? Removal of this pulley is not stated in the service manual. Am I missing something here??? Thanks for any advice.

Aurora40 · 01-27-2007

It'll come out. You just gotta finesse it. Or at least mine came out. I think I angled a little bit out, then pulled the belt along so that it would feed out to get free.

The big problem I had was getting the new one on! It was shorter than the original (due to not having been stretched out for years) and was really hard to get over all the pulleys.

ralph92ZR1 · 01-27-2007

You are correct; took some serious coaxing but it is off. =D> =D>

Thanks

marc.madmax · 01-29-2007

Hey Guys!

I used my big torque wrench on the Idler to get it off. Was kind of easy. The hard part was the new unit. The problem was that the unit that was prescribed was not the same length and did not fit (no matter what I did.) I found that NAPA has the wrong size as the spec and got a the next size larger and It has been fine for hundreds of miles. I am not certain of the part number. I can look if you want.

mbabbitt · 01-30-2007

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Originally Posted by marc.madmax

Hey Guys!

I used my big torque wrench on the Idler to get it off. Was kind of easy. The hard part was the new unit. The problem was that the unit that was prescribed was not the same length and did not fit (no matter what I did.) I found that NAPA has the wrong size as the spec and got a the next size larger and It has been fine for hundreds of miles. I am not certain of the part number. I can look if you want.

The last belt I installed was a Goodyear Gatorback Poly-V
P/N: 4060805 6PK2045 (I believe this means 80" in length and 5 ribs, not sure, there is a code chart on the Goodyear Gatorback site)

Mark

01-27-2007	#1
ralph92ZR1 Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Shillington, Penna. Posts: 67	Serpentine Belt Removal Some advice please on removal of the serpentine belt '92 ZR-1. It should be a slam-dunk, but with the belt free from all pulleys it appears it will not pass under the throttle body and the air-conditioning compressor pulley?? Removal of this pulley is not stated in the service manual. Am I missing something here??? Thanks for any advice. __________________ [FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]Ralph E. Weise [/FONT]:) '92 ZR-1#473 Red/Red

01-27-2007	#2
Aurora40 Join Date: May 2005 Location: Leesburg, VA Posts: 2,713	Re: Serpentine Belt Removal It'll come out. You just gotta finesse it. Or at least mine came out. I think I angled a little bit out, then pulled the belt along so that it would feed out to get free. The big problem I had was getting the new one on! It was shorter than the original (due to not having been stretched out for years) and was really hard to get over all the pulleys. __________________ Bob Saveland Former owner of #2517 [IMG]http://a.random-image.net/aurora40/vette.jpg[/img]

01-27-2007	#3
ralph92ZR1 Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Shillington, Penna. Posts: 67	Re: Serpentine Belt Removal You are correct; took some serious coaxing but it is off. =D> =D> Thanks __________________ [FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]Ralph E. Weise [/FONT]:) '92 ZR-1#473 Red/Red

01-29-2007	#4
marc.madmax Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: San Diego Kalifornya Posts: 12	Re: Serpentine Belt Removal Hey Guys! I used my big torque wrench on the Idler to get it off. Was kind of easy. The hard part was the new unit. The problem was that the unit that was prescribed was not the same length and did not fit (no matter what I did.) I found that NAPA has the wrong size as the spec and got a the next size larger and It has been fine for hundreds of miles. I am not certain of the part number. I can look if you want.