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Originally Posted by pgranberg11
if I remember correctly when I had this kit, yes you have to loosen the pulley as well as the tension screw.
if you just try to loosen the tensioning screw nothing will move. loosen the pulley first and then loosen the tension screw. The reason why your belt is whining is because it's too tight.
this is the main reason why this kit was such a big pain in the ass. The ONLY way to get a socket behind on the pulley is to not use a socket. Do yourself a favor and buy a set of ratcheting wrenches and fit the end of it on there and loosen it that way. Otherwise you will have to dismount the entire thing.
I've had this kit for almost 3 years and i'm not surprised kraftwerks still don't listen to their customers and that they need to implement an auto tensioner.
no matter how many times you tighten or loosen it, you will ALWAYS be constantly adjusting it due to changing weather. Colder weather will make the belt extra tight so you'll have to loosen it. Hotter weather will make the belt too loose so you'll have to tighten it.
The shittiest part about it is, if you don't catch the belt issue in time, your pulley bearings will go to shit causing your pulley to wobble. Once your pulleys start to wobble your donezo because the belt will have irregular wear causing it to snap.
good luck with your kw kit.
edit: ps. if you let your belt on too tight for too long, you'll snap the bolt that holds the gear adapter to mount on the crank shaft lol. There are also numerous reports of the input shaft breaking as well. Lastly, if you do all of those steps and loosen the belt up and the sc is still whining, you're double donezo. That typically means bad supercharger bearing, which means you having to send the unit into kraftwerks for them to send it to wherever the place is in europe for who knows how long of a turn around time.
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Thanks for the reply man. It's crazy that they still haven't developed any sort of better tensioning system considering the mass amount of issues everyone has had.. I'm going to loosen the pulley again and see if I can get it sorted out. It's pretty demoralizing having a brand new kit and being excited to test it out, only to install it and have it be so loud that you don't even want to drive it.
