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Any new belt will stretch. This belt isn't new, but not old either. You can still clearly read the lettering on it.

I put a couple hundred miles on it in the last couple days. Belt needs to be tightened again. It's not bad, just squawks when the a/c first kicks on. After that, it seems fine.

I got it güdentight. 1/4" of movement. No slip, and no squawk. Best of all, no more rattle from the pump.

Not much, if any differences in bolt torque between models with the same engine. Thank you good sir, I can now go put the little red wagon back together.

Those seem like far more reasonable numbers than what I found. What I really need is an FSM for the XJ platform....

Now, does anybody know the toque specs for the water pump to block, t-stat housing to head, ps pump to wp, ps to manifold and bracket to block? The numbers I have seem way, way high for the size of...

I couldn't twist it more than about 20 degrees before the pump died. It was really flappy with the bad pump.

We'll see how the thing does tomorrow. I got lucky, the idler (fan pulley) and...

Kewlies! Thank you!

It was fairly tight before, but I think with the craptastic Water pump, it wouldn't stay tight.

It all goes back together in the morning. Now that I have a T-stat with...

That's what I figured. Güdentight would be the answer then.

Changing out the Water pump in The Little Red Wagon ('96) and want to know how tight the belt should be. Everywhere I look I get the same Basic thing "using a Tension gauge"...

I don't have a...