fit belt to flymo compact 350?

FANTASTIC, worked a treat but please note you will need two different size Torx wrenches and one Pozidrive driver, I had to loosen the four screws holding the motor.

Jabawokee.
April 2011

I managed to fit the belt on using a bit of brute force and not having to undo any screws, just the centre bolt.

Damon
February 2011

One of my screws dont want to budge

daniel palmer
June 2009

Take off the blade, the fan and the small grey, circular, plastic cover.

On the same side (the underside), remove all the screws - If I remember correctly, there are 8 in total.

On the top side, there are two screws securing the orange plastic motor cover at the front. Remove these as well.

You should now be able to withdraw the belt/motor/spindle assembly from the inside of the machine.

Look at the underside of the assembly at the motor end: There are four screws in a square arrangment, through elongated holes. You need to loosen these to enable you to slide the motor assembly back in order to let you get the belt over the motor and blade spindles.

Alternatively, leave these four screws alone and you might be able to get the new belt on, albeit with quite a bit of effort.

Use your own discretion. If you opted for the former approach there, you now need to tension the belt and retighten those four screws.

As for the rest of it... Refitting is the reverse of removal.

R Glass
June 2004