So I started Moya up after a long week at work to find the battery light on, the brake light on, and the steering ridiculously hard to turn. Okay, I figure, the power steering's gone wonky, but what's with the battery and brake lights being lit?
I get her home and pop the hood and - yikes. The serpentine belt is looking up at me, in no way on any of its pulleys and tensioners, as if to say, "Who, me?" Farther down, the tensioner (B) is off its little mountings. I guess that tiny little cheepcheepcheep wasn't normal for an H6. But it had gone to Atlanta and back -twice- and in four months I haven't had a single problem. I had never noticed any woggle in the tensioner when I watched it running. Or maybe I just fail at paying attention.
Anyway. I manage to get her home, fire up the forums and hunt around a bit.
It looks like I might as well replace the belt as well as the two tensioners. I've been looking around on Ebay, but it's hard to pin down exactly what's what. My local dealer is asking something like $44 for a regular pulley and $100 for a tensioner. (And like $37 for a belt.)
So ye gurus of the H6 - since I'm armed with at least a few tools, like a hex socket, an assortment of screwdriver heads, a torque wrench and a Sam Adams - what's the best course of action for this fix? What really might as well get replaced as long as I'm digging around in here?
I get her home and pop the hood and - yikes. The serpentine belt is looking up at me, in no way on any of its pulleys and tensioners, as if to say, "Who, me?" Farther down, the tensioner (B) is off its little mountings. I guess that tiny little cheepcheepcheep wasn't normal for an H6. But it had gone to Atlanta and back -twice- and in four months I haven't had a single problem. I had never noticed any woggle in the tensioner when I watched it running. Or maybe I just fail at paying attention.
Anyway. I manage to get her home, fire up the forums and hunt around a bit.
It looks like I might as well replace the belt as well as the two tensioners. I've been looking around on Ebay, but it's hard to pin down exactly what's what. My local dealer is asking something like $44 for a regular pulley and $100 for a tensioner. (And like $37 for a belt.)
So ye gurus of the H6 - since I'm armed with at least a few tools, like a hex socket, an assortment of screwdriver heads, a torque wrench and a Sam Adams - what's the best course of action for this fix? What really might as well get replaced as long as I'm digging around in here?
