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So I pulled the trigger and bought this kit.. Brand new and my belt is giving off a crazy whine, and I can't for the life of me figure out what is wrong. I've checked the tension multiple times and it's set correctly to the specified tolerance using the Gates app. Checked lines, pulleys, piping, basically anything I can think of. Belt is not rubbing on anything.
I tried to loosen the belt up a bit just for the heck of it, but my tensioner pulley is giving me issues. I have to loosen the tensioner pulley in order to drive the tension bolt in, however it does not drive in nearly as far as what kraftwerks calls for. My tensioner bolt is currently pretty much all the way out, but the belt is still tight. Do I need to play around with sliding the pulley closer to the left side and then tightening it down? The belt seems to come too tight when I tighten the pulley back down, so I end up backing the tension screw back out.. They just kind of seem to be fighting each other. I'm going to try and loosen the pulley back up, slide it far left and tighten the tension bolt in to ~50 hz, because I know when I tighten the pulley back up now it is going to pull my belt even tighter, hopefully to the normal range-ish.
There is also no specified torque for this pulley in any revision of the install manual, not that I would be able to get a socket on the back of it while it's mounted anyway. Only way to access it currently is by removing the upper SC bracket and using an angled 14mm wrench to loosen it.
Has anyone had similar issues or possibly knows a better process to tension this? Or any other reason as to why my kit is currently sounding the way it does? I've already contacted Kraftwerks, still waiting for a response.
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