Serpentine belt replacement

[jasong]

Never replaced the serpentine belt myself... Anyone have a good thread on this? I'm curious how to loosen the tension... Just loosen the left hand screw bolt the diagram on the hood points to?... Will it come all the way out if I keep turning it?... I've loosened it, but no tension
released on the belt... Please help.

 

[jasong]

Nevermind. I figured it out...

 

[Trunk Monkey]

Care to share?

 

[1loudLX]

Ya turn the left hand bolt on the tensioner pulley counter clockwise, or tighten it, and it'll move the pulley and release tension.

 

[jasong]

Yeah... Crank on it to the left and the pulley moves down. Don't take the bolt out!.... Pulley could come off, them you'd have a real project on your hands! Job is actually fairly easy, I used a cheater bar on my socket wrench to hold the tension and just worked from the top. I did manage to get the belt routed without taking off the skid plate... But I do have long skinny monkey arms... It would be easier to take the skid plate off and work from the top and bottom to reroute the new belt.