when I was fitting new belt to my tumble drier after the belt was put around the drum and the spindle it was too loose.

M Bromley, January 2006

Joy!!

Kept reading of people moving the spring to the other side to get tension. thought about this, but this cant be the answer, so i removed the motor and looked at the spring arrangement. Decided that it was hooked onto the wrong bar, which meant the jockey wheel position was to far clockwise to put tension in to the belt. I moved the spring location which moved the jockey wheel position further anticlockwise. Putting the belt round the spindle then moving the jockey whell to the right enabled the belt to go to the left side of the jockey wheel. Wheen released it put the belt under tension. VOILA!!

I can only summise that when the belt snaped the jockey whell springs round to the right and the spring detaches and hooks onto the wrong bar.

Hope this helps someone else as i have just spent the best part of 5 hours doing it.

Regards

Richard

richard ware, July 2006

Andy

I am trying to fit a belt and have followed your insructions but the belt is still too loose. The new belt is exactly the same length as the broken one so what is going on, have you a picture of this arrangement?

Regards

Richard

Richard Ware, July 2006

I was having the same problem - an engineer told me the trick.
1) get the got the belt over the drum. You do this by undoing the back panel and pulling the drum back (still attached to the back panel) and slip the new belt over from the front of the drum.
2) belt goes groove side down on drum.
3) the motor has a grooved spindle put the belt over this.
4) at this point the belt is almost right but a bit slack and I thought it was the wrong length or some people on this site have been fiddling around moving the spring on the motor but....
5) the trick now is that the motor is sprung giving resistance as you push it to the right. Push the motor to the right. Now pull the belt to the other side of the black pulley so as the motor springs back it put the belt in tension.
The belt now follows a sort of "S" path (tilted 45 degrees left). So the belt comes from the vertical to the left side of the black pulley under it then over and around the grooved spindle that comes out of the motor.

Hope this makes sense and helps.

Cheers

I managed to break the front dial in the process somehow though..... another £15 no doubt

andy white, January 2006