Singer Stylist 834 TIMING Belt (2025 Update)

The job you thought was minor is actually a very complicated job. The problem you have now is just the beginning, there are a lot more adjustments you will have to make along the way. This is a job even a lot of places that say the repair machines will not handle. If you are local and want to drop it off I can help. It will not be inexpensive, in fact probably more than the $175.00 I would have charged to do it in the first place.

I always charge an extra Fix-the-Error fee to take over someone else's botched job.

I was thinking, when I first read OP's message, "that's a repair which should not be attempted without the *service* manual, and not even then unless one know what one is doing."

Or in fewer words: "Ping Ron!" ;-)

I posted the help singer stylist 834 timing belt question.

It took a little bit of effort and i thank all those that responded for the motivation to get this fixed Without help and without the repair manual. I like a challenge and for those of you that offered to help for $$ I appreciated the offer but i managed to figure it out. It took a great deal of observation but the machine works fine now.

This is a good machine and with new belts it should last well into the future.

Thanks again......

And 8 years later I'm stumped trying to figure out how to get that belt off. I'm stubborn too so I'm sure I'll figure it out but I'll come back and post how I did it

Best left to a professional you have to take the entire upper shaft out

How does the upper shaft slide out? I can't get it to shift. TIA