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Old 09-Jun-2011, 13:56   #6
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Originally Posted by MJS
So - how difficult are belts on a 996?

In theory it should be no more difficult than the 2V belts, with the exception of the different run of the belt due to the extra cam.

The only difficult bit, imo, is knowing how tight the belt should be!

The guide I used said that it should be tight enough to just run a 5mm allen key between the belt and the tensioner pulley on the horizontal cylinder. I had a practise on the belts before taking them off to get a "fell" of this, and sure enough I couldn't get a 6mm allen key through but I could a 5mm key.

On the vertical you use a 6mm key, and again it felt the same as using a 5mm key on the horizontal.

There's also the "twist" method, where you should be able to twist the belt to a maximum of 45deg at the mid-point between the tensioner and the cam pulley. I also checked this and it seemed fine.

You can also use a sonic method - "strum" the belt and see what frequency it is. The tighter the belt the higher the frequency. Unfortunately I couldn't get consistent results with any of the microphones I could find!

I don't have a tension checker, so couldn't test that.

Having a cam locking tool should make things a lot easier on my 748, and luckily I have quite a few of those knocking about


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