A few questions before I tackle aux kit

[hipwell]

My aux kit arrived today and I've just got a few questions.

Will I need to take off the pas pump pulley to get the tensioner out? If yes do I need to use loctite when I put em back in?

In the pack I got 2 washers. 1 large one and 1 thin one with teeth in it. Where do these go?

Will a 3/8 breaker bar do the job to release the tension or won't there be enough room to get it in?

 

[Jonz]

There wont be enough room to get any sort of tool in, unless you buy the specific tool. Easiest way it to squash a big jubilee clib in to the overal shape of the tensioner, put it around the tensioner and tighten the jubilee clip to take the tension off. There wont be any need to remove the PAS pulley, but if you want to for more access (just 3 bolts anyway) then you don't need loctite. Taking the old tensioner off should show you where the washers go.

 

[hipwell]

well, its done.

Whats an absolute pig of a job.

 

[Jonz]

After owning a 172 for the past 6 years my threshold for what counts as a pig of a job has been creeping upward. Easier second time round!

 

[hipwell]

It would be easy if it wasn't so tight.

Used an 8mm Allen key with an extension for the main bolt.

Had to jack the engine to get an e12 socket on the top bolt through the access hole

Then the bottom pulley noatter how or where I jacked the engine the access hole was useless so ended up finding a really offset spanner to get to the bolt.

And the good old jubilee clip to get the belt on as no tool would get in there lol.

 

[Jonz]

It would be easy if it wasn't so tight.

Used an 8mm Allen key with an extension for the main bolt.

Had to jack the engine to get an e12 socket on the top bolt through the access hole

Then the bottom pulley noatter how or where I jacked the engine the access hole was useless so ended up finding a really offset spanner to get to the bolt.

And the good old jubilee clip to get the belt on as no tool would get in there lol.

Was that the access hole for the bottom idler? I've seen plenty of pics with people getting extensions through there, never worked out how they hell they did it. Only method I've found to access it is by putting a socket in it and turning it with a mole grips.

 

[hipwell]

Was that the access hole for the bottom idler? I've seen plenty of pics with people getting extensions through there, never worked out how they hell they did it. Only method I've found to access it is by putting a socket in it and turning it with a mole grips.

Yep, all the guides I read was to jack the engine and get a socket through the access hole. I found that method impossible.

A deep offset 13mm spanner did the trick.