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Old 08-11-2014, 04:39 PM   #9
Timco
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Originally Posted by Mark_T View Post
The tension on the belt is applied by the tensioner pulley and shouldn't have anything to do with the age of the belt. I really fail to see how a new belt would increase the load on the water pump.
Unless it was slipping, no change regardless of length. Tensioner is still the same and relatively equal throughout its range of motion. A UD pulley would change the speed of the pump but wouldn't change the load on it.

Only thicker fluid or some restrictive change would add load.
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