How to remove acc. belt idler?

[Zero1]

I found my pulley had seized, which looks like in turn eventually lead to the belt siezing and slipping at the crank pulley, which seized my water pump which may or may have been related to half my coolant burning out my exhaust and the other half ending up in my oil.

Anyway I cannot get the bastard off to replace it. I've spray soaked it in all sorts of solvents (Front end has been oozing oil for awhile so I'm assuming it just got so full of nasty ass oil and road grime in that) before every sort of PB Blaster, Liquid Wrench I have in my garage. 6side socket on a 1m breaker bar still started stripping it before budging it. I can probably get at it with an impact if i remove the radiator but just want to make sure I'm not stupidly overlooking something in case I'm unnecessarily just going to end up stripping it fully, and making it even worse.

Is there some trick I'm missing?

 

[matttaylor1976]

I went through this recently with the other idler. To remove them, remove the bolt in the front center of the pulley, then remove the bolt that adjusts position. Try tightening it first just a bit to help break it free.

 

[Zero1]

I went through this recently with the other idler. To remove them, remove the bolt in the front center of the pulley, then remove the bolt that adjusts position. Try tightening it first just a bit to help break it free.

The other idler doubles as a tensioner for the AC belt doesn't it? For the accessories the alternator is leveraged for tensioning. Perhaps there's that much grime on the damn idler but i think there's just one bolt. And unless its neither regular theaded or reverse threaded that much torque with a tight hex socket you think would do something short of the crank pulley's torque.... Loctite Red perhaps by a PO? God I dunno. I'm obviously seemingly missing something. Then again, the thing should never not spin so there's a lot going wrong with it.