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thanks for your input, the recommended belt size is 15A1015, i have got it pretty tight but may try the bosch brand from Isuzu parts as the profile may be better, who knows?

Well I'm back again, still got the faithful old buggeress. She started making strange sounds like a broken tappet about 40000km ago and after lots of expert opinions and stripping of tappet assembly the best prognosis a diesel mechanic could make was just keep driving it, if it gets worse it will ...

Have done a few thou ks in the old chook and shes still running sweet, thanks for all the help. I still cant figure what killed the belt after just 50000k too tight? or too loose?, or maybe when I had the broken water pump replaced they did something nasty.

Hmm -my last reply posted failed - sorry folks. Hey Geeves you were right -bluddy flat battery! I had CD player going while i was working on the old girl -a wee bit o romantic music to get her in the mood - and the battery went flat. Even tho i charged it back up again it obviously killed it. SOOO i ...

good ideas ta, i will try another battery but it sounds like its just bloody tight. the battery was charged up but is old and could be stuffed. I did notice that the fuel pump was very hard to turn over when the belt was off -is that normal? At first I panicked ,thought i'd left a locator bolt in ...

Well I have finally got her all together - cant get it to turn over -any ideas why? - have turned it by hand -does feel tight I just figured it was due to the compression.

I have purchased belt, tensioner and idler and 2 rockers from ruskies - no branding, hope its not junk. They seem to think i dont need the tensioner lever to set belt up. I would prefer to use one if anybody can lend me one for a few days that would be appreciated.
cheers

If any body out there has a couple of spare rockers I could buy please? Thanks to Alans manual I realise the tensioning lever is the boomerang shape that is missing -hmmm did the guy who did my engine just take it off after or did he not use it. This event sure could be explained by a loose belt.

By the way -thanks for all the tips folks, nice to know there are other people out there that dont just smirk and giggle when you say your bighorn is broken.

Removing the radiator gave me more room to skin my knuckles but bugger the air con - still no front on access! Have removed all the bits of chewed up belt, there is a groove about 5mmwide and 3 deep gouged out of the inner edge. I suspect bits of this chewed up belt jammed somewhere and caused the ...