Well, what a king sized PITA that was. Using a cable tie just seemed to make it even more difficult. The only solution was brute force and ignorance, during which some slight damage was done to the new belt. Much of the problem is that you have to removed the long, serpentine auxiliary belt in order to replace the small A.C belt. When you do that, you make it 100 times harder to turn the pulleys on the small belt, but turn them you must to get the new belt on. Volvo could so easily have incorporated a couple of lugs on the power steering pulley to facilitate that, but they didn't. Not good at all.
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