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[alfie]

Thanks Andy,i'll sleep easy tonight.

[Andy H]

...... what kind of play should there be.
                                 Alfie.

Very little, your tensioner is keeping it tensioned 

As Andy said the spring tensioner should be setting the tension.

If you have been sold a belt that is too short it might be pulling the tensioner up to the endstop. Belt tension could therefore be stupidly high.

You should be able to fit an ordinary 15mm spanner on the nut on the tensioner and release all tension on the auxiliary belt without too much effort.

[alfie]

So if the tensioner is pushed clock wise,and the belt shows some slackness,it's ok.

[Andy H]

So if the tensioner is pushed clock wise,and the belt shows some slackness,it's ok.

Yes

[alfie]

Job done,thanks for all the help. One fault that was found whilst working on this was the connecting rubber pipe was split on the 15mm ssteel pipe on the front  of the engine,would that reduce performance.
                                                                     Alfie.