Mustang_NTriangle

Do you have to remove blower unit in order to swap out belt? Can you get ratcet to release belt from the bottom of the car using a lift because it is not accessible from the top down.

jvog

Pretty sure its gotta come off...Changing belts with the vortech it a complete PITA

Mustang_NTriangle

figures.... Jvog what ever happened to your build????

jvog

Its done...well kind of. I drove it about 100 miles so far. Im not gonna drive it anymore because the inspection is up and I really really need tires. There is a noise that I need to locate, it may be a lifter, it may be a spark plug gettin ready to blow out, or it may be a spun rod bearing. I can't really tell. The plan is to drive it and if it gets worse and i see a **** ton of metal shavings in the oil its a rod bearing and then I go and have a talk with the machine shop

Eduardo

i use a crow bar and push the tensioner up from under the car while my buddy takes the belt off the alternator pulley, then remove bracket and repeat

vanquish

+1 I do the same thing. I think Vortech's instructions say to use vice grips on the tensioner. That's not happening too easily.

0949er

you can get it off but you need to make some kind of "make-shift" breaker bar to do it. my buddy made one with square metal piece and welded the square 1/2" connector to the end. (i think thats the size, it was whatever fits into the tension pulley)

vanquish

I thought there was no room at all because of the bracket but that's helpful if you can make something to work.

Sxynerd

With romeo's you have to pull off the blower, Windsor's you don't. 3 bolt vs. 1 bolt tensioner.

Frostbitten

the vortech bracket makes it a pain to change the belt. you have to get a long bar and push up on the tensioner from under the car. or at least thats how i did it