Twice the serpatine belt had fallen off while I was driving the saab. This happened as I was just accelerating from a stop. The first time I was only 1 block from home so I drove it the rest of the way then reset the belt. The second time I was in a parking lot about 30 minutes from home so I had to do the repair on the spot. I started to loosen the wheel lug nuts when my wrench bent. Now, I dont tighten my lug nuts with pneumatic tools just to prevent this very issue. Now, the aftermarket lug nut wrench I bought because the saab didnt have one when I bought it broke. I loosened just one lug nut before the wrench became worthloss.

Now I was really frustrated because:

1. The belt fell off, again!
2. I dont have a way to remove a tire because my wrench sucks.

Long story short, I got Atasha to bring me the tools I needed to fix the saab so I was able to drive it home. Once there, I priced out a new serpentine belt tensioner. It was a little pricey so I decided to pull the one on the parts car. It may have up to 200k miles on it, but it works.

Once I got done with that swap, I got to thinking, maybe the parts saab has a factory toolkit with some tools in it unlike my dailer driver which only had a broken screw driver in the toolkit when I bought the car. Yay, it did have a full tool kit, including some swanky orange plumbers wrench.

At least of the new tensioner fails, I will be ready.

Serpentine

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Smll Med Lrg toolkit from parts saab	Smll Med Lrg tensioner from parts saab, dont know how many miles are on it	Smll Med Lrg tensioner removed, leave the mounting base alone	Smll Med Lrg
Smll Med Lrg all the parts of the tensioner	Smll Med Lrg there are bearings in that middle hole, they look pretty good	Smll Med Lrg bad tensioner from daily driver, bearings are SHOT	Smll Med Lrg bolt snapped in half on old tensioner, had to pry it apart to get wheel out and belt off wheel