In my infinite wisdom I decided to install a new auxilary drive belt and tensioner pulley to my 1.6 1996 VW Polo..

Got the new idler/tensioner pulley assembly into the engine block and bolted it down...

However, there is a little steel pin that is locking the actual tensioner to its casing...

Does anyone know how on earth you get this little pin out?

I have been lying on my back in the rain for a good half hour trying to pull the bugger out and failing miserably...

Anyone?..

I have to drive to work tommorow and would quite like my PAS and alternator to be working

isnt the pin just the stop?
thought you unwound them with a splined bit and did the lock bolt up?

is it a auto tensioner if so just move tensioner a little with spanner a bit and pin will come out

It is an auto tensioner...

And yes, logic says that if I wind up the tensioner with a spanner in the usual way I should then just be able to pull said pin out....However its being a bugger and wont come,....

I guess I just need to hit it a bit harder

Sorted....Ended up using a pop rivet gun to pull the pin out....damn it was tight...

Im so glad its sorted..that annoying whine has gone away now

Thanks guys