{"id":362,"date":"2017-01-28T02:28:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T02:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/?page_id=362"},"modified":"2019-09-17T08:36:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T16:36:33","slug":"serpentine-belt-replacement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/mercedes-slk-230\/serpentine-belt-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Serpentine Belt Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><big><big>2002 Mercedes SLK 230<\/big><\/big><br \/>\n(R170 Chassis)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>At 67,000 miles it was time to replace the serpentine belts.\u00a0 The belt tensioner is loosened with a Torx E10 socket:<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 431px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Torx E10 socket\" src=\"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/Discoveries\/IMG_3798.jpg\" alt=\"Torx E10 socket\" width=\"431\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Torx E10 socket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>This can be used from a 3\/8 ratchet &#8212; if you have an assistant to help with the belt.\u00a0 Better yet, buy yourself a Serpentine Tool:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Serpentine Belt Tool\" src=\"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/Discoveries\/IMG_3797.jpg\" alt=\"Serpentine Belt Tool\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p>There is a front and rear belt.\u00a0 The owners manual contains a belt routing diagram.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t have one, draw a diagram becasue it&#8217;s not as obvious as it looks.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of the rear belt tensioner:<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2002 Mercedes SLK 230 rear belt tensioner\" src=\"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/Discoveries\/IMG_3788.jpg\" alt=\"2002 Mercedes SLK 230 rear belt tensioner\" width=\"640\" height=\"393\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2002 Mercedes SLK 230 rear belt tensioner.\u00a0 Notice the cracks in this belt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b> Here&#8217;s a picture with the Torx socket attached.\u00a0 I&#8217;m pressing down on the ratchet to loosen the belt:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2002 Mercedes SLK 230 rear belt tensioner\" src=\"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/Discoveries\/IMG_3790.jpg\" alt=\"2002 Mercedes SLK 230 rear belt tensioner\" \/><br \/>\nIf you look carefully, you&#8217;ll see I was also changing the oil.\u00a0 The belt replacement took about the same time as it took for the oil to drain.<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<pre><small><i>Updated: January\u00a02017<\/i><\/small>\n<small><i>Contact: GerdHoeren at Gmail dot com<\/i><\/small><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2002 Mercedes SLK 230 (R170 Chassis) At 67,000 miles it was time to replace the serpentine belts.\u00a0 The belt tensioner is loosened with a Torx E10 socket: This can be used from a 3\/8 ratchet &#8212; if you have an assistant to help with the belt.\u00a0 Better yet, buy yourself a Serpentine Tool: There is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/mercedes-slk-230\/serpentine-belt-replacement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Serpentine Belt Replacement<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":376,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-362","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/362\/revisions\/710"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}