Often the cause of unstable operation of the electrical equipment of your car becomes broken or poorly tensioned the alternator belt. Do not just rush to the car service professionals to help you troubleshoot the problem, after replacing the alternator belt is not as difficult as it seems at first glance and forces the majority of motorists.
The First indication that the belt alternator drive belt has worn or poorly tensioned, is appearing whistle, when you give the load on the vehicle's electrical system (including lights, radio, etc). On many car models fitted with an indicator giving a signal in case of problems, and then we should take measures to eliminate them, otherwise the host vehicle will fail.
Deciding to examine the system, you need to take some precautions, which includes stopping the engine and disconnecting the battery negative cable. You then need to inspect the belt, located at the most cars to the left of the engine for defects, its tension and sagging. If you find obvious defects (impulse, bundle, heavy wear), the alternator belt needs to be replaced by purchasing a new one. When it is weakening and sagging should be perform stretch the alternator belt.
Replace your old or damaged drive belt with a new snap. To do this, slacken the bolt tensioner alternator drive belt using the wrench, loosen the belt, popeska the tensioner bolt with a key, and to remove freed a worn belt. Try to remember how you originally installed a worn belt, to install in its place a new one in reverse order.
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Just to pull the alternator belt, using the key turn the tension bolt a few turns while controlling the belt tension of the generator. In case you have the shape, you can use it to adjust the tension more accurately, bringing the indicators to the values specified in the technical documentation for your car.
Consider the alternator belt tension using the autotester for VAZ models 2108, 2109 and 21099. First, run the engine at idle to steady work. Then you need to connect the tester to the battery, setting it on a mode measuring voltage, loosen the tensioning mechanism of the generator. Under voltage produced by the generator, the indicators on the dial of the tester will be continuously to change their testimony. To adjust the voltage, you must move the alternator to tension the belt tensioning bolt (with a tire iron – depending on car model) to the point when the indicators are on the dial of the tester will be unchanged, and then lock the tensioner bolt with the locknuts and tighten the generator.
After the alternator belt was replaced and tensioned, you must check the operation of the generator. For what, connecting the disconnected wire to the battery, start the engine and allow the load on the electrical equipment, including heating, radio and high beams and after a few Peregudova engine. No whistling alternator belt and stable operation of electrical equipment suggests that the work was done efficiently.
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