here's the rear view of the assy once removed, it's fairly heavy.

I made it a point to clean up all rubber mounts and used a rubber conditioner.


My belt was running inside out. It had burned its mirror image in the plastic shroud. I'm glad I checked this.

Dirty:

Clean :

Belt info:

While I have things apart I lubed points as necessary, condition rubber, used contact enhancer on the connectors and applied a little synthetic spray wax on painted surfaces that I don't normally have access to.

The rubber insulators within the "M" shaped clip were not in very good condition on this car - - they're always exposed to high temps. One was split in half. I've ordered a few new ones to do all the cars. They seem to be used across many model years.



(Belts were ordered thru Phil ($20 for two of them incl. shipping) and I had them next day. I ordered the 2nd belt to do another car this weekend.)

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1998 W210 diesel (wiped out by a texter)
Baum spring compressor "for rent"