WHAT DID DODGERUNNER DO TO MY ENGINE !!??! (Page 1/1)
ArthurPeale MAY 10, 12:45 PM
I'd been reading about how the Dodgerunner tensioner bracket was a great solution for belt squeal. So, I contacted them and once I sent money, a bracket was sent my way.

Here's where things started to go wrong. It started to rain. It rained for like three weeks on every day that I could work on the car.

Finally, on the first sunny day, I broke out the tools and installed the bracket and tensioner.

It took 45 minutes. Forty. Five. Minutes. From start to finish.

The belt took two and a half hours. I just couldn't relieve the tension AND slip the belt on.

Finally - bracket installed, belt installed, I fired up the car.

What's this? Increased voltage from being properly tensioned? No squeal ? How am I supposed to let the neighborhood know that it's raining?

I mean...ah, jeeze...what do I do now? Thank the guy for this marvel of engineering?

( seriously though - do ya have any other cool gadgets you've invented ? )
Spadesluck MAY 10, 01:01 PM
That tensioner is very nice. I do recall being at a Fiero meet when everyone started their cars, a bunch of squealing. lol Mine on the other hand was nice a quiet with tensioner in place.
Patrick MAY 10, 01:09 PM

I get no commission ... but I've been recommending Dodgerunner's tensioner here every chance I get. Bought mine in 2008. Best money I've ever spent for my Fiero.
ArthurPeale MAY 10, 02:15 PM

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Originally posted by Patrick:


I get no commission ... but I've been recommending Dodgerunner's tensioner here every chance I get. Bought mine in 2008. Best money I've ever spent for my Fiero.



My ONLY complaint - the website. It's built in such a way that printing the instruction as-is doesn't quite work. What I ended up doing was copying / pasting the instruction into a Word document, and importing the photos.

Also, the photos are low res and zooming in doesn't help.

But even with that, I was able to figure it out fairly readily. I filmed the process, and took some photos, and I'll post a video on what I did at some point in the near future.

Any future stock V6 Fiero I own will get one of these right away.
Patrick MAY 11, 03:58 AM

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Originally posted by ArthurPeale:

...the photos are low res and zooming in doesn't help.



You mean like this one?



Yeah, kind of reminds me of online image quality back about 1999.
La fiera MAY 15, 09:34 PM
If you install an alternator "free wheeling" style pulley like ones on the newer cars like the Passat's and BMW's you'll end up with the same result, That is what I did.