Installing Drive Belt For Air-Conditioning Compressor
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WARNING:
Rotating components
- Danger of limbs being trapped or severed
- → Disconnect power supply to the drive motor of components or to the battery.
NOTIFICATION
Drive belt removed incorrectly
- Risk of damage to drive belt
- → Only remove the drive belt when it is cold.
- → Replace damaged drive belt.
NOTIFICATION
Drive belt breaks and becomes jammed
- Risk of damage to components (trim panels, electric cables, etc.)
- Leaks at the crankshaft vibration damper sealing ring
- Vibration damper can overheat and lose its strength
- → Following belt breakage, check adjacent components and the interior of the engine compartment for damage. Repair or replace damaged parts.
- → Find out why the belt broke. Check deflection rollers or crankshaft vibration dampers for prior damage.
- → If the drive belt is jammed, replace the vibration damper.
Routing of drive belt for air-conditioning compressor
- Vibration damper
- Tensioning device for drive belt for air-conditioning compressor
- Air-conditioning compressor
- Deflection roller
- Install drive belt for air-conditioning compressor -1-
.
Tensioning device for air-conditioning compressor drive belt
- 1.1 Replace screw on tensioning device for air-conditioning compressor.
- 1.2 Fit drive belt for air-conditioning compressor -1- on the pulleys and align it along the grooves of the pulleys. Check the rolling direction of the drive belt for the generator while doing this.
- 1.3 To tension the air-conditioning compressor drive belt -1- , swivel the tensioning device -2- at the Torx splines -3- anticlockwise as far as it will go -Arrow- and keep the tensioning device -2- tensioned until the final tightening torque is reached.
- 1.4 Tighten new
screw for tensioning device for air-conditioning compressor -4-
.
- Tightening torque 25 Nm (19 ftlb.)
- 1.5 Check that drive belt for air-conditioning compressor -1- is seated and tensioned correctly.