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Old 10-21-2001 | 12:20 AM
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New belt size

when i remove my air conditioning, smog pump, and belt tension pully, what size serpintine belt will i need?

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Old 10-22-2001 | 10:51 AM
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I am not really sure on the numbers but what I did was I took a piece of rope and just wove it thru according to the directions thru the pulley system and then when we got that we marked on there were the belt would end and then measured it with some tape measure and found out that way.

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Old 10-22-2001 | 04:27 PM
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how can i reach the correct tension, without the tension pully?

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89 Firebird/305 L03 TBI A4/t-tops
Open Element Edelbrock Aircleaner w/ K&N air filter/Summit Chrome Valve Covers
---Stero---
Pioneer DEH-P730 Premium
Infinity 2way 4652 4x6's/Pioneer 4way ts-a6985 6x9's
profile cl640 110x4
----Comming in a few days----
Edelbrock TES headers 3" out/flowmaster American thunder 3" exaust/Catco HighFlow catco cat
Old 10-22-2001 | 04:45 PM
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Well you can't and I would not try. Go and get you an AC delete idler pulley. Its like 38 bucks and came on LE1s.

Then, take the airpump off, remove the vanes inside and put it back on. Now you still have the factory belt length and everything.

I used a pair of tin snips to fix the airpump.
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