QBR-62325

Hooray for QBR-62325! The saviour of Sally Saab! This is the part number for the shorter drivebelt - that Bert from the magic car parts shop ordered in for me - that arrived on the lorry this morning - that I collected this afternoon in exchange for £16 - that I took home and got Pete to fit into the broken car... and now its fixed! Brilliant!

Familiar territory... I've now taken this wheel arch liner off a few times so its easy peasy.

All the gubbins at the end of the engine that makes everything work with the new belt already fitted. Due to the amount of swearing and running around handing things to Pete there were very few transitional shots of the actual replacement. This is mainly due to the force needed to compress the automatic tensioning arm seen on the right hand side of the picture above. In order to fit the belt it has to be compressed - it is remarkably strong for such a little thing and took a nifty trick with a lump of wood, a trolley jack and the weight of the car to shift- but it worked a treat. Slipped the belt on and quick as you like, it was all done!

Pete in action. Couldn't have done it without him - Thanks Pete!

The top view of the new belt from inside the bonnet. Gave it a quick test as it was to make sure all was working as expected and luckily no further catastrophies, so put it all back together again and drove it round the block! Hurrah! Sally Saab is fixed! Now she just needs to pass the MOT! Ugg. Fingers crossed.