P1SC fox body owners w/in!!!

[Helmsdini]

I have a bit of a delimma. I just went to install my P1SC on my 91 mustang and the whole install went very smoothly, untill tonight.

Im at the point where all i have to do is put the belts on, finish buttoning up the engine and fire it up. I went to route the belt and im having a slight problem with it barely touching the tensioner. I looked the install up and down to try and see why it would touch, perhaps there was a spacer missing or something but i havent turned up anything as of yet.

basicly the belt is just barely touching the body of the tensioner. I thought at first it may have been because the head unit was canted back too far in relation to the crank, but after checking it with a straight edge, its only about 1/8 or 1/16 of an inch canted to the rear, wich according to the instructions is perfectly normal to compensate for the inherant brace flexing under load.

The only other thing i can think of doing is taking a grinder and clearancing the portion of the tensioner assembley that is touching the belt (very lowest portion of the arm), but before i do this i want to make sure that the brace isnt just mounted wrong or something. Is this a common problem? Im going to call ATI tomorrow and see what they say.. has anyone else had any problems with their belts touching the tensioner body??


thanks alot guys.

[RSNovi]

You need to lay a straight edge across the crank pulley all to way up to the blower pulley. These pulleys must line up perfectly or you will be tossing belts. When I used to run a P1SC, I had to put some washers between the head and blower mouting brackets to space the blower out some.

[WA2FAST]

Do you have pictures by chance? Do you have the standard brackets that come off of the A/C bracket, or the renegade kit with no A/C or power steering? I can probibly help you out, just need a little more info and pictures would help a lot.