On cars of the Lada Granta family with 8-valve engines, an automatic alternator belt tensioner is not pre-installed. Engine modifications are as follows: VAZ-11183, VAZ-21116, VAZ-11186.
You can compensate for the lack of a tensioner in different ways:
- monthly check of the tension level of the converter drive, which is impractical and costly;
- replacing the standard KATEK generator with a Bosch: not every car owner will afford to purchase an imported converter;
- systematic “updating” of the generator bearings: excessive tension of the drive belt, the absence of an automatic tensioner in the design creates the preconditions for premature wear of the bearings;
- set the fastening bolt with a diameter of “6.0” instead of “10.0”, which will increase the free play of the converter by a few millimeters to adjust the tension;
- “makeshift” modification of the standard bracket for the Lada Granta generator;
- replacing the Lada Granta generator bracket with the Kalina bracket.
Each of the above methods has its own advantages and disadvantages. Let's consider the last two options for “modernization” as the most common.
Replacing the Kalina generator bracket
Lada K alina 2 .
REMOVAL AND INSTALLATION OF GENERATOR - PART 2 To remove the generator of cars with VAZ-21126 and VAZ-21127 engines
do the following. On cars with and without air conditioning, generators are secured in different ways, since to install the air conditioning compressor, a bracket common with the generator is used, of a new design, significantly different from the bracket of the previous design. The operation is shown using the example of a car without air conditioning. Techniques for removing a generator on a car with air conditioning are specifically discussed. You will need: keys “10” and “13”.
1. Disconnect the wire from the negative terminal of the battery.
4. Place the car on a lift or jack and remove the right front wheel (see “Replacing a wheel”, p. 50).
5. Remove the right front wheel arch liner
This is where contact bolt A and terminal block B of terminal D+ of the generator of a car with air conditioning are located.
This is how the adjusting bolt is located on a car with air conditioning. Do not forget to tighten the locknut of the adjusting bolt after completing the adjustment!
20. Tighten the nut securing the generator to the tension bar to a torque of 21 Nm.
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