Lost my Belt, How do you tighten the Alternator Belt ? Options

[dralf]

Yesterday started out a great day for I replaced the alternator and got the car off the jack stands and took it for a spin into town. All was well until I revved up the engine during a down shift. The alternator belt popped off and was neatly ejected into the engine compartment.

I drove home on the battery, and now my question is how do you tighten the belt?
I put as much tension on it as you can in the cramped quarters by hand, but I never found a good way to use some sort of leverage to get the belt on really tight.

Any suggestions or tricks?

I also noticed when I put on the old pulley on the new alternator that the pulley has a slight wobble, is this a problem?

Tomorrow I will post some pic on another topic that I found while I was under the car.

[Joe Ricard]

I guess the 1st thing to do is make sure the two pullies are lined up.
Are you using the right belt?
as for tightening 1st loosen up the pivot bolt on the bottom, then loosen the clamp bolt at the top. I have always been able to get a Big effin flat blade screw driver against the alt and the bracket and obtain enough tension. then with your 3rd hand tighten the clamp bolt. anf then back under the car to do the pivot bolt.

A wobbly pulley is never a good thing.