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01-26-2006 | 12:13 PM

yellow03wrx

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My Belt Tentioner Broke. Can i ...

My belt tentioner broke, (the plastic thing that comes out of the pulley where the bolt goes into), for the a/c. My question is, can i drive the car like that if i just remove the belt?

01-26-2006 | 08:53 PM

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I've been driving my '02 WRX w/o the AC belt since the compressor started to die , +3K mi, no problems

01-26-2006 | 09:02 PM

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Yeah, take the belt off, replace the tentioner and put the belt back on after.

01-27-2006 | 02:37 AM

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I did the exact same thing.... ;-) I just ordered a new piece from subaruparts.com, put it on and then everything was happy. :-)

01-29-2006 | 11:45 AM

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great thanks guys

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