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Hey all,

Noticed today that my power steering belt had seemingly quickly deteriorated ( a few weeks since I last would have noticed) and now was almost split in half, and almost falling off.

Replacement from Repco - $30.00

I wasted a lot of time on this, and thought how much a quick guide would of helped!

Jacking the car isn’t required as you only need a few inch’s of height. I parked my front wheels on some pavers.

You need to gain access to 3 bolts,

1] The main pivot bolt for the pump

2] The slide locator

3] The long bolt or “tensioner” rod.

- Remove air filters ( std box if u have that) and AFM’s. Remove plastic under tray.

- The only tricky bit is having to line up one of the two holes in the power steering pulley with the bolt that the whole pump pivots on, as turning the engine is difficult. I just cut the old belt off; loosen bolt.

- Gaining access to the long ( 4 or 5 inch) bolt underneath the pump that’s used for tensioning, is done from the side, right where the AFM for the front turbo went; loosen bolt about 1.5-2 inch’s.

- From underneath the car, the long bolt you just loosened?, you can see goes through a threaded slider, used to push the pump away from the engine, when setting belt tension level; loosen this so that the pump will pivot.

- I couldn’t figure out a way to safely lever the pump in towards the engine, so from underneath I used a short breaker bar gently against the lower AC pulley to move the PS pump inwards.

- Now simply fit new belt, (making sure to do so, with the hole in the pulley lined up, so that u can gain access to the pivot bolt) tension the long bolt,

Nissan say, with a Poly V – low main tenance belt, should have 8-10mm of deflection when loaded with 10kg.

Secure the bolt on the slider, tighten the main pivot bolt and replace intake and under tray :run:

Thanks

Hope this helps.

  • 5 months later...

I knew I was doing something wrong, stupid pivot bolt, me belts fine, I need to take this belt off to replace the AC belt so I can't cut the P/s belt to get to the pivot bolt unfortunatley... looks like I'll have to do trial and error cranking...

oh well thanks for the guide.. you probably saved me another couple of hours :)

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