Replacing Engine Drive Belts

So I just did mine, really easy to do. Not sure on the tightness though. I'm going by the quarter turn, but not sure how hard you're supposed to twist them to get the quarter turn. I fired it up with no squeak. Not sure how to know if its too tight. I can get a little play when pushing down on the belt.
 
I changed my belt a year ago and it has about 15k miles on it .
On dry days its fine but on a rainy day they squeel like crazy
I had the gates belt and i know its not the belt. could it be the tensioner or?
It just needs alil tightening?
 
Ok i was at the shop and i asked the guys to tighten my belt for me cuz it squeeks on rainy days in cold engine

But he said we have auto tensioner and he cant tighten it

What does this mean
??

Do you uys have a pic of what to tighten?

Thx!!!!!!
 
I believe we have an auto tensioner that should keep it tight over time as the belt loosens a bit, but it needs to be correctly initially set.
 
Hmmmm correctly set is the part i dont understand ..... Sorry

I changed both belt about 2 yrs ago
App 15-20k. Ever since about cpl month ago during rainydays in cold engine it started squeeking ....

So im assuming the tensioner was correctly set because it dint make noise b 4 but i was thinking there was something that i needed to tighten to tweak it a bit. However i guess not ..... So new belt i guess
 
I changed the belt on my G like a month or two ago and it never squeaked. But after driving it a few thousand miles the belt has set in and stretched a little so it needs to be adjusted and tightened up a tad bit again because its started sqeaking.

I don't know about auto tensioner or whatever but after I tightened it up again it no longer squeaks.
 
Hmmm this is where i get more confused . I bet we all have auto tensioners. Although im not a mechanic
Im sure you guys are right .... The question is-

1 does auto tensioner for the first gen have like a guide where you can loosen the bolt and kinda wiggle it up a bit?

2 or am i loosening up something else? Not the tensioner part?

Damn i bet the mexhanic just saw that it was auto and just lazily said auto tensioner cant be tightened!!!!!!!!
 
There is a 12mm bolt under the tensioner pulley that tightens up the belts. First loosen the 14mm bolt on the front of the tensioner pulley. Under the tensioner pulley, there is a 12 mm bolt used to tighten/loosen the belts up. After proper tension, retighten the 14mm bolt.
 
toy4x said:
There is a 12mm bolt under the tensioner pulley that tightens up the belts. First loosen the 14mm bolt on the front of the tensioner pulley. Under the tensioner pulley, there is a 12 mm bolt used to tighten/loosen the belts up. After proper tension, retighten the 14mm bolt.
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Ok i got it now !!!!!
Damn lazy mechanics!!!!!! Big love to IS mechanics!!!!
 
Sort of a late reply, but I just saw that the cutoff is March '07 for the difference lengths of belt. So anything manufactured up to 03/07 is the ~48" belt and anything 04/07 is like the ~45-46" belt. I have no idea when my '07 was made, so I guessed the shorter one. Hopefully I'm right.

StuLax18 said:
Son of a bish!!! Amazon did send me the wrong belt. they sent me the 60465 also, which is too big of course since I don't have the extra idler pulley. I think this means Gates website, and Amazon's is wrong. :mad.:

Anyone know the part number for the larger belt that is a little shorter?

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NVM, I found it by looking it up for 2008. Fuggin' Gates' website is off. Correct number is K060450, which is a tad bit shorter.
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