ok so i have a 2.2 and im supercharging it i have everything done pretty much, except i cannot get the belt on, we have tried the 15mm open wrench as well as a crowbar/prybar and nothing will get the tensioner low enough for us to be able to get the belt around the supercharger pulley.
Anyone have any suggestions? i've read the GM repair manul the GM guide to stage 2 and have the right setup for the belt it just seems too be a tad too tight.

 

what pulley are you running and what belt

 

stock pulley stock belt with one rib cut off (fitment for 2.2 crank pulley)

 

i dont know then i dont know if one of your pulley is a different size or not

 

they are the same as the lsj, i replaced my pulley set up with lsj tensioner and idler

 

i forgot to mention in the PM...for an immediate fix, a smaller pulley will work (a 3.0" pulley worked on a stock belt fine...i didnt get belt slip until i dropped to a 2.9)

also...find a bigger guy to do it... my friend steve's tensioner is insanely harder to compress than mine, and we had to call his 240lb friend to help us push it down while we slipped the belt on.

 

we decided to just put the stg 2 pulley/hub on... but we have to waot for grade 8 botls because we just strip every bolt trying to tighten it to put the hub on...

 

I got it on with help from my friend...we put the belt in all pulleys, than bolted the blower to the manifold, basically lift the throttle body side of the blower, lower tensionor as much as u can, and than slide belt on, than push blower down and bolt it to the manifold

 

the stock bolts are made to break incase of overtorquing. remember our block/head is all aluminum..and its better to use weak replacable bolts that break than to use strong bolts that strip the block. Of course if you torque everything to specs then it wont be an issue regardless of which you use.

 

i was referring the the grade 8 bolts needed to push fit the hub on... which didnt work nor could the chevy dealer get it on with the installation tool... we are putting it on the lathe today because i guess its slightly warped, so we are machining a new shaft for the snout

 

oo...whoopsies. never mind then..lol