Hi Tyler,
I would personally be doing what someone has obviously done on the red one - get an angle grinder and take a bit off the tensioner
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This looks very obvious but will only work if the cable is long enough for the tensioner to move back
As stated back to Tyler - I am pretty sure whoever did this - and we're assuming this was 'by design' didn't really know or achieve what was desired. As the tensioner arm rest against a raised area of the chassis, with the spring pulling it back to here. The idler pulley is of a size where it will almost hit the raised area IF you go removed part of the arm.
And this is aside to the actual reason it's assumed they did this - as it still won't be able to add any more tension to a new M36 belt - as stated I literally broke the steel cable on one by trying to add more tension - the belt is incredibly tight and based on everything I've seen about belts, far too much so.
So my gut feel is that was a 'bodge' effort that achieved nothing - the only variables that can change and affect things are either the pulley sizes, pulley locations (which won't change) or the belt size - the latter being the most easily changed one. Anwyay it won't be solved today.
