[W126 Coupe] Fw: How do you change your alternator belt?

[Dick Spellman]

Hi Ramon,

Your 82 should have an air pump mounted below the alternator.  Loosen 
the air pump bolts to drop this short belt.  Then you need to loosen the 
bolt on the arm running horizontal above the ac compressor.  Then take 
an open end box wrench placed on the upper idler bearing arm (you will 
see a flat surface where the wrench is to be placed) of the air 
conditioner compressor belt and depress to relieve the tension and drop 
this belt.  That will leave you with free access to the alternator 
belt.  The two tandem pump belts for the power steering are accessible 
after the alternator belt is removed.

As most everyone has suggested, in doing one belt you should do them all.

I am sorry I can't give you the bolt detail on the air pump but, it 
should be straight forward and accessible from underneath the car with 
passenger wheel lifted, jack stand in place, rear wheels blocked.

-\Dick

On 11/23/2010 11:10 PM, m0nm0n at aol.com wrote:

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> *From: * m0nm0n at aol.com

> *Date: *Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:09:00 +0000

> *To: *markusfmeyer at gmail.com<markusfmeyer at gmail.com>

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> *Subject: *Re: [W126 Coupe] How do you change your alternator belt?

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> Thanks for the tips everyone, but I'm still stuck. I got to loosen the 

> alternator, but how do you loosen up the belts for the a/c compressor 

> and the power steering pump? Need to take their belts off 1st right? 

> Thanks

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> *From: * "markusfmeyer at gmail.com" <markusfmeyer at gmail.com>

> *Date: *Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:05:21 -0500

> *To: *<m0nm0n at aol.com>

> *Subject: *Re: [W126 Coupe] How do you change your alternator belt?

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> I think three bolts hold alt on.  Two of them should when loosened or 

> removed should let you change the belt you will see the toothed 

> adjustment bracket.  Regular sockets or wrenches will be fine.

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> Date: Tue, Nov 23, 2010 1:51 pm

> Subject: [W126 Coupe] How do you change your alternator belt?

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> My alternator belt on my 82' 380 sec needs to be changed. Is it easy 

> to replace by yourself? do you need any special tools? Thanks, Ramon

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