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Fiero Belt Tensioner by Dodgerunner
Started on: 10-07-2007 09:48 AM
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Thanks for the heads up. Looks to be straightened out now.
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A bump to the top for a great product and a great person...

Dodge Runner has donated a bracket and belt to the Tyler Project...

I have this tensioner on my car, and absolutely love it. It resolved all of my belt squeal issues.

I highly recommend this high quality and easy to install product. This is what the Fiero 2.8 should have had from the factory.
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Report this Post12-12-2009 09:36 AM Click Here to See the Profile for DodgerunnerClick Here to visit Dodgerunner's HomePageSend a Private Message to DodgerunnerEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
Have a couple brackets/kits available.
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Report this Post12-16-2009 07:38 PM Click Here to See the Profile for DudemanGTSend a Private Message to DudemanGTEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
any tensioners left?
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Report this Post12-16-2009 08:02 PM Click Here to See the Profile for DodgerunnerClick Here to visit Dodgerunner's HomePageSend a Private Message to DodgerunnerEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
Yes three available.
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Report this Post12-16-2009 11:00 PM Click Here to See the Profile for thedrueSend a Private Message to thedrueEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
I just have to chime in and say since I put this belt tensioner on my turbo 3.4 car I have not heard one belt squeak. Before I had the hardest time keeping the belt from wailing all the time.

Great product, well worth the money.
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Report this Post12-18-2009 06:17 PM Click Here to See the Profile for DudemanGTSend a Private Message to DudemanGTEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
Ill end up getting the whole kit, just need a paycheck without bills and the holidays attached, lmao... gimmie a week or two, and ill buy
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Just bought one of these Kits a few weeks ago when my alternator took a crap on me. Finally got around to installing the alternator and the belt tensioner kit the other night but could not complete the job because there was no way in hell that I could de-tension the tentioner. The "pocket" that the end of the wrench goes into is potitioned perfectly between the tensioner and the frame of the car. It is nearly imposible to get the wrench into the tentioner. Then if you are able to get the wrench in, it is extremely difficult if not impossible to move the tensioner because of the lack of space and the spring effort. I battled for at least an hour but failed.....I couldn't move the tensioner arm because I'm weak . But when I added length to the wrench (more torque) by slipping some pipe over the end of the wrench, the pipe would hit the suspension arm and the tensioner wouldn't rotate/move enough.

I ended up having to go out and buy a pivoting head type socket wrench (also slightly longer than my normal socket wrench) in order to get more torque and clearence to be able to move the tensioner enough to slip the belt on. It worked! It's finally on now and seems to work great, but man what a PITA it was to complete that final step. Of course now that I have the right tool and the experience it will be much easier the next time I have to remove the belt. Plus I'm hoping the spring tension will loosen up a bit after use, making it easier to rotate the arm.
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Originally posted by turbotoad:

It is nearly imposible to get the wrench into the tentioner.



Not so.

If you took five minutes (or less) to drop the "skirt" an inch or so in the wheel well (or drilled/cut a hole through that soft material), you could've put a 3/8" extension right into the square tensioner hole with the ratchet positioned outside of the wheel well. Piece of cake.
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Report this Post05-09-2010 09:32 AM Click Here to See the Profile for W ScottSend a Private Message to W ScottEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
There is another method to "de-tension" the tensioner.

On the top of the tensioner by the idle pulley there is a square boss (Look at the pictures on the first page, version 2 - second photo down). On mine a 3/4 inch open end wrench fits perfectly over that. From above I found I can reach down with the wrench and lever back the tensioner and put the belt on. No parts to remove, no going under the car, no modifications. If there are two of you (one on the wrench, one slips the belt on) it will take less than 60 seconds.

My Fiero is an '85 V6 SE and I have one Dodgerunner's Version 3 tensioner on my Fiero. I found that my method above was much easier than trying to get the 3/8 drive in and out of the pocket and try swing the wrench around. The method from above also gives greater mechanical advantage because the lever works out to be longer.

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Report this Post05-09-2010 09:38 PM Click Here to See the Profile for David DeVoeSend a Private Message to David DeVoeEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
Dodgerunner, any of these still available? and if so is the kit price still the same?
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Report this Post05-10-2010 01:27 PM Click Here to See the Profile for DodgerunnerClick Here to visit Dodgerunner's HomePageSend a Private Message to DodgerunnerEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
Currently building a couple more. Prices are still as listed on my web page link on the first post of this thread.

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Report this Post05-25-2010 12:48 PM Click Here to See the Profile for DJErikdSend a Private Message to DJErikdEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
Any tensioners available yet?
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Report this Post05-26-2010 12:13 AM Click Here to See the Profile for BlacktreeClick Here to visit Blacktree's HomePageSend a Private Message to BlacktreeEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
Just an update: I've been using the slightly shorter (44.5") belt since my last post, and have had no problems whatsoever. This makes Blacktree a very happy camper.
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Report this Post05-26-2010 05:11 PM Click Here to See the Profile for XanthSend a Private Message to XanthEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
Also wanted to throw an update out there, I've been using this tensioner on my daily driver ever since my original post on 03-09-2008, no problems whatsoever.

One of the best upgrades I've had the pleasure to install
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Report this Post05-26-2010 06:19 PM Click Here to See the Profile for DodgerunnerClick Here to visit Dodgerunner's HomePageSend a Private Message to DodgerunnerEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
Thanks guys. Glad they have worked out for you.
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i just sent you an email, this is the best thing ive ever seen.

as i was trying to tighten down my new alternator, and of course i broke the bracket, i was like someone has to have come up with a spring tensioner by now, right?

and boom. here it is. can't wait to get one.
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Report this Post07-01-2010 02:42 PM Click Here to See the Profile for IkesterSend a Private Message to IkesterEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
I just put one on my 85 GT. Let me say this kit is 5 of 5 stars in every respect. I bouthg the whole "kit" and it had every nut and bolt and part I needed to do the job. Not a single run to the part store for the "overlooked" item. It went in in about an hour with no pain (well, my knuckles are bleeding on my right hand, but that happens no matter what I do on my Fireo...!) With the engine off, I turned on lights, radio, stereo, and let 'er sit. 10 minutes later I fired it up and NO SQUEAL! Wow why did I wait even this long to put this kit in!??? This is a necessity for all V6 owners! Thanks Dodgerunner for designing and making this kit available. I took a few minutes to sit back and look at the installation- you are a heck of a designer and fabricator! Very impressive. Thanks!
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Report this Post07-01-2010 05:50 PM Click Here to See the Profile for outlawfiero17Send a Private Message to outlawfiero17Edit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
wondering if you had one available yet? got my money in the bank waiting.
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Report this Post07-02-2010 01:37 AM Click Here to See the Profile for FieroJonneySend a Private Message to FieroJonneyEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
I'm also interested. Damn thing squeals every time I start the car, every time I shift gears, and every time it's raining outside!
I can't take it anymore! LOL
I'll shoot you a PM.
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I have said it before, and I'll say it again... This is one of, if not THE best upgrades to improve the stock 2.8 Fiero engine.

Mine has been on my car since last year, it is a daily driver, and other than some issues with a parts-yarded tensioner, has been flawless.

I bolted on a new tensioner and a new belt, and only after 6 months and a very extreme downpour, or a car wash do I get a peep... And rarely for more than 2 seconds.
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Report this Post07-02-2010 09:10 AM Click Here to See the Profile for DodgerunnerClick Here to visit Dodgerunner's HomePageSend a Private Message to DodgerunnerEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
Thanks guys!
I'm behind on getting brackets built at this time due to helping a friend with his house.
Like several areas we have had a lot of rain and flooding around the area.
I hope to have some available by next week. I'll contact those interested as soon as I have some ready.

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Dodgerunner, is there any way your kit could be adapted to an '86 Duke? I know it's probably a dumb question...but my brain is addled from belt squeal!
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Report this Post07-02-2010 12:13 PM Click Here to See the Profile for DodgerunnerClick Here to visit Dodgerunner's HomePageSend a Private Message to DodgerunnerEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
I would sure do one for the early 4's but don't have access to an engine to design one.
I only have an 87 duke which already has the factory one.
Of course would need an engine out of a car. Have thought about buying one from a salvage yard so I'd have one of each.

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Would somebody with a Duke near Lincoln, Nebraska *please* drive over to Dodgerunner's place and let him have a look? Pretty please with belt dressing on it?!?
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Report this Post07-03-2010 12:00 PM Click Here to See the Profile for Lone RangerClick Here to visit Lone Ranger's HomePageSend a Private Message to Lone RangerEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
Okay, I'm begging now... The tail end of Hurricane Alex poured on Houston yesterday and I got let out early to get home before expected street flooding. Trouble was, several hundred thousand other drivers apparently had the same idea. The freeway was jammed...and the access roads flooded...so it was just slog home through the traffic as best I could. When it rains in Houston, driving becomes a submarine adventure. So I crawled home with belts screaming, turning various current-drawing devices on and off to lessen the load on the alternator - the slipping belt on which caused it to lose it's ALT altogether several times. AC was at least an occasional necessity to permit me to actually see out, so I juggled switches, had to restart the engine when it stalled, and just generally had a MARVELOUS drive home. Clearly, Pontiac finally decided the sensible thing to do was add a belt tensioner, and BOY would I like to follow suit!
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Hey, Dodgerunner...would it be possible to adapt the later Duke system to the earlier engines? I've never seen an '87 or '88 Duke, so I have no idea if the changes were too extensive to allow that. Are there later Dukes in the junkyard from other vehicles that could be donors if it's possible?
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That's a very good question. Unfortunately most of my experience is with V6's. I just acquired my first 4 late last year (an 87).
Wish I had access to various years of 4's. Use to see a lot of Fieros show up at the pull-it yard to frequent but they have dried up over the past year. I thing Omaha had a policy to get abandoned vehicles out of yards so a lot showed up. Apparently they have succeeded in cleaning cars out and hence less and less Fieros. (shedding a tear.)


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just want to say i finally got around to installing this and everything went well and it works great.

though while wrenchin around i managed to hit one of the steel brake lines over there and now it leaks. it was pretty badly rusted anyway. so just a heads up for anyone working on the front of the engine.
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I'm working on installing my kit onto my car and I have one small snag. I installed Rodney's Power Pulley kit last year with smaller OD crank and alt pulleys as well as his idler. Although I'm sure its decreased the belt squeal, I still have some on start up and in the rain so I thought I'd give this a go.

I'm leaving the smaller OD pulleys and after I installed my belt its too long. Rodney's kit comes with a 47 inch belt. I shredded mine a while back when I replaced my harmonic balancer (tecnically I think its a crank dampener) and didn't get it on right. So I replaced it with a 42 inch belt that still worked fine with the adjustment at the alternator w/ rodney's kit.

However, that same 42 inch belt seems to go on over the tensioner just fine but its barely too long to allow the tensioner to engage the spring on it to do its job properly. I turned the motor on and although everything spins, I get the belt squeal.

So... since I'm at the bare minimum of tension on a 42 inch belt, should I go with a 41.5 or a 41 inch belt? I'm leaning towards 41.5 right now to set the tensioner roughly in the middle of travel but I'm not sure if it would be long enough to allow for stretch.

So, suggestions for 41 or 41.5? I thought I'd ask this here in case any one else runs accross this in the future.
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So I went ahead and rode my motorized bike down to the parts store with my old belt to select a new one. The guy at the parts counter was reading the OC number (outside circumference) instead of the length in the part number though and kept trying to tell me a belt with a part number of K050405 was a 41.25 belt. The K number is the number of ribs (05) and the next 3 numbers are the length in inches (040") and the last number is a decimal (.5). Therefore its a 5 ribbed belt thats 40.5 inches long. I kinda thought the parts guy would know that but whatever...

Anyway, they didn't have a 41 inch belt in stock but they did have a 40.5 inch belt so I took it. Its a bit of a tight fit to get it on, but it seems to be just fine from just letting the motor idle. With the 40.5 belt, the tensioner is using up about 2/3's of its total travel which I think is OK and as the belt stretches it will use up a bit less. I think the 41 inch belt would actually be the better choice, however, as it would take up a little less tension travel to pull it closer to center and it would be easier to put on.

The only problem is that I used a 3/8 ratchet wrench to pull the tensioner back and now there isn't enough room to get it back out so it looks like I'm going to have to find out what size the square boss on the top of the tensioner is and pull it back with a wrench to retrieve my ratchet before I go on a test drive.

So in closing:

-With Rodney's power pullies use a 41 inch belt.
-A half inch in either direction of 41" would probably still work OK but YRMV.
-Don't use a ratchet, use a wrench on the boss on top of the tensioner or you'll not be able to get the ratchet back out of the recess in the side of the tensioner arm.
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Awesome product installed mine yesterday from the passenger side using a t-bar ratchet from harbor freight.
http://www.harborfreight.co...e-ratchet-98484.html
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Crazy looking tool.
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Just thought I'd bump this with an update. So far, no squalling whatsoever despite running the car quite a bit in the rain and in the morning with everything covered in dew!

However... my 1-year old AC Delco alternator died on me. The rear bearings failed.... I *think* this was caused by running the 40.5 inch belt at almost full swing on the tensioner and it was just too much pressure. Time for new alt bearings and a 41 inch belt with Rodney's power pulley set

Or.... I could have killed the bearings when I was still trying to adjust the alternator the stock method and over-tightened it and the bearings just didn't fail till just now. Dunno.

Now what the heck do I do with my old belts?
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Bump, Dodgerunner are you still making these? I need one pretty bad, the belt on my '88GT won't stop squealing, its so bad it makes it so I don't even want to drive the car. I'll need a few days to get the money for it, I can probably order and pay by this weekend.

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hey dodge did you ever look into those issues i noticed? not with your product of course but the things to watch out for. so no one ends up like me on the side of the highway at 3 a.m.
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Quick Review: BEST PRODUCT EVER! Thanks DodgeRunner!

Two years back I purchased Rodneydickman's Idler Pulley, and while it did cut down on the belt squeal a little bit - it was still there... The RD idler pulley just wraps the belt around the alternator wheel a bit more, without providing tension. So last year I purchased DodgeRunner's Belt Tensioner and I haven't heard the belt squeal once sense.

That belt squeal was the most annoying part of my car, now if only I could get rid of that hunting idle - life would be great. =)

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