There is no advantage to v-belts. With a standard tensioner a serpentine will not slip, takes-up less room, doesn't have to be adjusted, etc. I seriously considered sourcing the brackets and such to change mine to serpentine, but a good v-belt set-up has no major shortcomings either. (at high RPM a serpentine would be less likely to slip however)

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Hmm... I really hate have to adjust our v-belts set-up. I'm guessing honda did that due to fitment issues since there aren't really advantages to v-belts.

 

I needed to remove the axel as well. On numerous cars.

 

try removing the mastercylinder