Anyone have a "how to" on replacing a 1st gen serpentine belt ?

 

Do you have the tool to do it?

Should take 10 minutes at the most.

 

try this thread

 

Thanks, but mine is not supercharged........do thes same instructions apply ?

The tool is $87 .........is the tool necessary ?

 

Oops - missed that.
The MCS tool can be jiggered using a socket and a long, square prybar. The MC tool looks a bit more alien, so I can't comment.

<excuses himself to go kiss mom and thank a teacher>

Question: If I find a cute one, can I kiss the teacher and thank mom?

 

Whatever works for you

Thanks

 

Anyone have exact instructions on how to rig a homemade version of the S tool, or better yet, pictures or video of either the actual tool, or a homemade version being used? I think once I see how exactly it moves in relation to everything else on the car I can figure out how to jerry-rig it myself.

 

Yes, this would be great

 

Originally from Andy at Ross-Tech..

 

If you are planing on keeping your MINI for a long time, it is worth the investment for the tool. Odds are you will have to replace the belt sevral times.

 

what nabeshin said. the first time i used a giant screw driver and it was very dangerous and i bent the pulley and the frame of the car that i was using to get leverage on.

deviant, the two pins on the tool (little round circles on modshacks pic) fit into some holes on the tentioner pulley. the arc in the pic rides on a big bolt and is used as a fulcrum to get leverage. I had mine with me a Daytona. I could have shown you there.

 

I'd seen the two wholes in the tensioner, but couldn't figure out an adequate way to get leverage on it, or where to pry. I was really hoping to finally do my pulley tomorrow but guess I'll have to put it off a little longer. Maybe I'll be able to get this at the Way Motorworks open house this weekend.

 

Good point but you may want to improve the tool when you get it.
I recently broke one and was surprised until I talked to Wayland and he said this is common. Next time I will have someone fab something to keep the tool from breaking.

 

I did it with a socket on the pivot bolt of the tensioner, and a long square screwdriver as a pry bar (using the socket as a fulcrum), and an allen wrench stuck in the tensioner hole as what you're pushing on with the screwdriver. It can work, but I do NOT recommend it... I only did it because someone had taken an MCS apart in MY garage (not me, and not my MCS) to put on a pulley, and didn't let the absence of proper tools slow them down... so I had to rig something to save the day...

 

Most dangerously, I did it with a car jack and a chunk of wood. Broke on a trip, but I had a spare belt in back. It worked, but NOT recommended!
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So far all I see online is the tool for the MCS.......which uses a different tool than the regular MC without the supercharger.

Any ideas ?

 

After reading about how lousy the OEM tool was I set out to make my own.
With help from Andy at Ross-tech who provided measurements, same as posted in the diagram.

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...79/ppuser/6865

If you build one make sure it is robust enough to take the load. This tool was used at a local Randy Webb pulley party and still serves it's purpose.

 

Thanks, but that tool is for the Cooper S

I need one for the NON Supercharged Cooper

 

Sorry for stepping on your thread, I was answering the other guy.

Never looked at a Cooper that close, it probably has a tensioner with a nut that you put a socket and breaker bar on to release tension.
Maybe if you posted in the Cooper forum, somebody has to have changed out a belt by now.

 

Not a problem.........I thought I did post in the Cooper Forum

 

Sorry to hijack your thread, I had a similar issue. Later today I'll try and take a look at a Cooper that's coming by and see what they look like, how similar or dissimilar to the S model it is.

 

Square hole (about 3/8" drive size) in the tensioner arm, but not enough room to get a wrench or breaker bar in there to work the darn thing.
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