Heres the deal. I got my NST 9.5 pulley installed but my mechanic put my oem belt on cuz he said the gates belt wouldnt fit I told him it does but he didnt believe it. So now every time i step on the gas it slips and squeals like nuts. Im gonna try and put the belt on myself but i need to know if i need to jack up the car in order to get the belt back on? Any advice will be appreciated.

 

I believe when you get your supercharger installed, they put a sticker on the inside hood of how the belts are supposed to be placed. If not, somewhere on TRD sparks, their supercharger install manual has a layout there. Hope that helps :X

 

thanx bro, I figured it out

 

the mechanic sound like a dumbass

 

do you mind explaining how you did it?

 

yeah he is kinda oldschool, hes more into muscle cars and such. but hes mad cool and hooks me up so i cant complain. 2much tc, its pretty straight forward you just loosen the tensioner bolt, slip the belt off. I found it was much easier to jack the car up to put the new belt on cuz the power steering pulley is pretty far back there. I had someone loosen the tensioner bolt again while i slipped the belt over the last pulley witch was the s/cer pulley.

 

Careful, the dealer who did my install and the pulley swap has almost completely stripped my tensioner bolt. Its really soft metal.

 

Yea, I busted my tensioner bolt off a few weeks ago when I was installing my turbo. Made it real interesting this past weekend when I was installing my new NST pulleys. Oh well, I got them on.

 

Yup. They'll have to pull the engine to drill out and re-tap that one.

 

Not really, it isn't really a bolt. It is a bolt pattern cast into the tensioner plate so there is nothing to tap. I could probably fix it myself, but I would have to take the belt off and deal with it that way. The fix wouldn't be that hard, just take a little while. Since this is my daily driver and I don't have another backup car, it is fine as it is. I can still get the belt off by using a pry bar directly on the tensioner plate assembly. It is a little harder than using a socket, but it still works.