Need help connecting belt tension release lever?

[lindsey792]

Release lever can’t engage to tension the belt because the metal plug (not sure of its technical name) that fits between the plate on the lever and the piece attached to the spring is out of place. Do I need to disengage the spring to fit these back together? I’ve tried rotating the pieces so they come into alignment so I can fit this plug back through but that seems to require 4 hands (I only have 2) and a good deal of strength to rotate and fit everything together. I’m hoping there is an easy fix for this and I hope these pictures are helpful because it is a bit difficult to explain. Nothing appears to be bent or broken…

 

[JBTR]

Yes I think you will need to pull the spring off.
First, the connecting sleeve that has the spring pin holding the bottom of the spring, is rotated.
Also the clevis is out of place. The crank pin should go through the clevis and into the top tab on the back of the crank shaft, allowing the clevis to move up or down as the crank is rotated. I'll attach a few pics of how mine looked on my Heavy 10 before disassembly. It's kind of hard for me to visualize exactly what happened to yours, but I hope this will help.

John

 

[lindsey792]

Thank you so much for your reply - I took the spring off and got everything back together without much trouble. It helped to see your pictures because I wasn’t really sure what it was supposed to look like from that angle.

I’ve attached a picture of how it looks now, let me know if you see anything that looks out of place.

Thanks!

 

[JBTR]

Glad you got it figured out. Looks ok to me, considering we have different cabinets. I hope to put mine back together this weekend.