Product review (5 stars): Calling it quits!? Try gloves and more zips!
The belt does the job. However, the belt is very tight (as other reviews mentioned) and seems near impossible to fit - even with the GE tool and zip tie.

I followed the included instructions and watched the GE installation videos. But when you turn the pulley it gets very tight and requires you to "muscle" it towards your direction. The tub wants to move in the direction you're pulling and things will crack if force isn't applied in the opposite direction properly (such as placing your hand on the metal bracket securing the tub versus the plastic tub or thin bars).

I read other reviews which offered good advice including the use of additional zip ties and heating the belt making it more pliable. What did it for me was the following:

- IMPORTANT: Get a good pair of work gloves that have good grip and will protect your hands from cuts against the washer's metal. The gloves combined with the zip ties made the install possible and safe. This belt is tight and requires you to get a good grip on the washer's metal which is sharp around the drive pulley. For most of us without thick leather skin, it's either gloves or band-aids.

- Place the belt on as instructed but instead of a single zip tie use 3 and place them a half inch apart from each other. Why 3 you ask? Because the times I used either 1 or 2 ties, they either snapped off or the belt slipped underneath the pulley as it forced the tie to rotate with it. After installing the ties, turn the wheel just before the breaking point (where the pulley doesn't want to budge and cranking further results in the belt slipping off or ties snapping). Add another zip tie on the same side you added the first set when you started. What I found at the breaking point is that either the zip tie snapped off or the belt would slip off where you initially started.

I tried heating the belt with a heat gun which made some progress but didn't get me to the finish line. I only succeeded after I used a better pair of gloves than the ones I originally used combined with the additional zip ties. It seemed almost too easy at that point. Good luck!