can someone show me some pics of the water pump tensioner
or how do you tension the water pump, i cant find it in my haynes.

IS THIS DIFFERENT FOR THE VG30ET? prolly not, jsut wondering.

 

i think same tensioner does power steering as water pump. tensioner is between crank pulley and power steering pump

 

Did someone say pics??

 

you are always on top of it. do you just scan the fsm? i was going to do that but i got side tracked...

 

I have a fsm in pdf format..
I just print screen,go to paint and crop out what i want to show..

 

how did you get that?

 

Phat20g.net download the FSM for the 1994 maxima

 

uhh,
i dont have power steering
this si going to mess up the tensioner?

 

is there any other way to tension the belt?

uhh, what should i do

 

put the power steering back on is what you should do.

 

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i threw it out

 

now your engine is disfunctional

 

in deed,
i mean i can start my car with it, only like 1000 miles down the road the belt will stretch a little and get a little worn, and it wont fit as tightly as i need, im just wondering how i can run it WITH OUT power steering, and still have my belt tight.

 

Get a bracket fabbed up with a tentioner on it, or find a way to extend your w/p pulley so you can run everything on one belt. I have one belt that runs the alt and w/p.

 

Isnt that 500-700lb over your front axle heavy?

~Alex

 

wanna send me a pic?
what size belt u got doing that? did u get something fabbed up?

 

nah,
i work out

 

Keep in mind that this is an infiniti qx4 water pump, but this should give you an idea. The belt is from a galant IIRC.



The belt has an extra groove on it, so it hangs over, but it is functional still. Hope this helps...

 

have fun when that belt shreds completely and flies off because of the wrong # of grooves (been there, done that)

 

I think that i might be able to switch out the wheel on the alternator with a wider one and prevent that.

 

NICE!!

all i gotta do is put an idler pulley on the altenator bolt like that, i can weld up the altenator to pop out like that,
well ill get started ill let yea know how it goes

... i also have a UR UDP. i dunno if that messes anything else up

 

You can, just zap poff the nut with an impact and slap on a new pulley, you can also change pulley diameters then too

 

I'd just get a shorter belt if you are going without the power steering. Just use an old belt that is too long and cut it to size, then take it to the parts store to find one that would work.

 

tried that,
no parts store near me has one

im going out tomorow again and double checking this is total BS!

well if this works im going to get my car running ... maybe tomorow.

 

then put the stupid pump on and leave out the fluid. Or run one hose to the other and fill the hose mostly up with fluid.

~Alex

 

that pump (even if it's not hooked up) will die very quickly w/o fluid

 

Yea I know I was just too lazy to finish the post. Im tired....

~Alex

 

All this trouble for 5hp...

 

You're grossly over estimating

 

no i dont want it in the engine bay, and i didnt feel like hooking up after i did the engine swap