Timeing Belt Replacment

[lesnott]

I have a ford galaxy 2001 tdi changed belt tensioner water pump pickup cam senor  , My problem is wineing as if the belt is to tight ,

i have the correct gap on the pressure piston ,But the belt is very tight could it be a bad water pump or am i setting it wrong , I set the pulley all the way back put locking tool to hold piston turn wheel anti clock and slowly release to set gap ,lock nut , set it up three times still winning  help please.

[f0ster]

try backing off the tensioner a  tiny amount, they try it again

[lesnott]

thanks i have tryed slackening off   , but it has a piston tensioner that take up slack i have set it at the correct gap and tryed it at a larger gap noises is still there the piston tensioner as a massive pressure on the belt or is it the new water pump ?

[Argrdnr]

How do you exactly do you set the gap? As mine is doing the same thing