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Tips to install drive belt
A note of caution be very careful if attempting to install a belt without alignment studs as the belts don't stretch at all.
I highly recommend practicing this procedure at home with Beer if you take the Q.D. pulleys off and slightly chamfer all of the edges.
It makes reassembly much easier. The hard sharp corners that come from the factory make the job much more difficult even with the alignment studs and a real P.I.T.A.without them.
When removing or installing the Q.D belts try to move the pulleys as evenly as possible to avoid them binding.
Set the parking brake to remove the pulley retaining bolts.
Once you have removed the pulleys and belt it is very helpfull to debur the ends of both drive shafts and insides of the pulleys as shown in the pictures I painted the ends red with dye-chem to show the chamfered area better.
Before you start to reinstall the pulleys it helps to put an alignment marks to help orientate the top pulley with the splines.
After you screw in the alignment studs of your choice to put lower pulley and belt on.
Make sure to check the arrow on drive belt for correct direction then slightly engage the splines with the pulley
about 1/8"then carefully start the upper pulley on the alignment stud until it engages the splines once both are engaged you can work them on carefully.
Be sure that washers on the pulley bolts are installed with the crown up away from the pulley.Use blue Lock-Tite... I like to use the primer as it reduces the cure time.
A note of caution be very careful if attempting to install a belt without alignment studs as the belts don't stretch at all.
I highly recommend practicing this procedure at home with Beer if you take the Q.D. pulleys off and slightly chamfer all of the edges.
It makes reassembly much easier. The hard sharp corners that come from the factory make the job much more difficult even with the alignment studs and a real P.I.T.A.without them.
When removing or installing the Q.D belts try to move the pulleys as evenly as possible to avoid them binding.
Set the parking brake to remove the pulley retaining bolts.
Once you have removed the pulleys and belt it is very helpfull to debur the ends of both drive shafts and insides of the pulleys as shown in the pictures I painted the ends red with dye-chem to show the chamfered area better.
Before you start to reinstall the pulleys it helps to put an alignment marks to help orientate the top pulley with the splines.
After you screw in the alignment studs of your choice to put lower pulley and belt on.
Make sure to check the arrow on drive belt for correct direction then slightly engage the splines with the pulley
about 1/8"then carefully start the upper pulley on the alignment stud until it engages the splines once both are engaged you can work them on carefully.
Be sure that washers on the pulley bolts are installed with the crown up away from the pulley.Use blue Lock-Tite... I like to use the primer as it reduces the cure time.
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