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Originally Posted by Mark_T
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.
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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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