Rebelting a VZ2000 is a piece of cake
Just follow these instrctions:
1: Take out the turntable unit by opening the door and carefully remove the two screws ion the upper left and upper right corner in the turntable compartment.
The blue cover does NOT need to be taken off. The screws will squeak since they are mounted in rubber to not let vibrations disturb the turntable.
2: Once those two screws are untightened, close the turntable unit again and push down und the door. It will go down and the like snatch out to the front.
The turntable unit is mounted on two springs (once again to protect it from vibration).
3: After removing some cable clips inside for better access, unplug a black and a white plug inside. Be careful, the balck plug needs a little tab to be pressed down in order to pull it out freely without damaging anything.
4: You can theoretically start rebelting the turntable now...it is just a little hard to do with the control PCB being still in the box.
To take out the control PCB:
1: Remove all the screws from the back plus two in the front (right and left lower corner of the turntable) and don't worget the one under the tunig dial.
The silders and volume/tunig dials should be taken off in order to open the box up.
2: One you have removed the screws, carefully open both halvesafter about 5-10 cm, you might want to stop to pull out the speaker connections plugs which are located at the bottom of the box
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3: While taking it apart, he turntable pcb control should just fall out since it is only slided in these somehow. Don't worry, it is easy to get it back into place later on.
4: once having the whole unit apart, it strongly recommend to do some cleaning in the speaker which are normally really dusty and also apply some contact cleaner on the function switch and the sliders. And clean the tuner scale inside - it will be nice and blue again
To put it back together just reverse all those actions.
To rebeltt he turntable you can atke the spinning disc off with all the electronis by removin 4 screws. You can now put the belt around the big spinning disc and then with a self made tool like from a paper clip, you can pull it over the motor carefully. Don't forget the also change the tone arm drive belt which is on a seperate motor.
Hopefully your old belt did not leave icky remains in the box
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Good luck making it a fully working VZ again!
I worked on mine for 3 days but it was so worth it
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