Replacing the A/C belts on this Dino reminded me why I usually specialize on a particular model and age of Ferrari. My cut off is the early 70s and Dinos are at the edge of my range because their design start to show why I don’t prefer to work on later cars. Access to some of the components can be tight and a pain in the butt.

Ferraris used two belts on the air conditioning compressor, and mounted the compressor facing the engine tucked in a notch cut out in the passenger side fuel tank. I took this picture when I removed the two A/C belts to remind me the sequence I needed to follow to get the two belts back on the car, because if one is completely installed, the second one will not go on unless it’s partially installed. Even following this technique, the belts have to be “walked” onto the pulleys by turning the engine by hand because even with the tension adjustment at full slack, the belts won’t simply slip on.

Don’t worry, I cleaned up the rust on the lower pulley!

I’d say it was definitely time for new belts!