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Hi, I'm Don from 1A Auto. I hope this how-to video helps you out, and the next time you need a part for your vehicle, think of 1AAuto.com. Thanks.
In this video, we're going to show you how to replace the idler pulley on this 1996 Chevy Tahoe with the 5.7-liter V8 engine. It's the same part in similar process on a large variety of GM vehicles, and it fits the Tahoes from 1996 to 2008. The items you'll need for this include: a new idler pulley from 1AAuto.com; a 10mm and 13mm socket and a ratchet with an extension; and a 3/8-inch ratchet.
First, we need to just remove this cable. Push back on that tab and pull the harness up and out. Next, you want to remove this series of 10mm bolts that line this panel. We'll just fast-forward as Don removes each of those. Now, lift that shroud up and off.
Now, using your 3/8-inch ratchet, just push it in to that square hole. Then when you push down on it, it will loosen up the tension on the belt allowing you to pull it free. Just start off by pulling off the alternator, and then carefully let the ratchet up, pull it out, remove your belt the rest of the way, and pull it over that fan. Your idler pulley is located right here, and it's held in with a 13mm bolt. Just go ahead and remove that. Once that's removed, the pulley will pull right off.
Take your new idler pulley and push it into place with the bolt already through it, and just tighten that bolt up. Now, to put the serpentine belt back on, you're going to want to use this belt routing diagram. If you don't have AC, you use the dash line. If you do, then you're going to use the solid line, and you just want to follow this and put your belt on in this order. It's kind of hard to show Don doing it, so we're just going to fast-forward as he fits it over each of the pulleys.
When all that's left is your alternator, put that 3/8-inch ratchet back into your tensioner, push down, put the belt up on the alternator, and then carefully release the ratchet and pull it out. Fit that shroud back down into place, and make sure all of your holes are lining up. We'll just fast-forward as Don replaces that series of 10mm bolts. Now, just push that harness back into that clip and push it down into place.
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Hi, I'm Mike from 1A Auto. I hope this how-to video helps you out, and next time you need parts for your vehicle, think of 1AAuto.com. Thanks!
In this video, we're going to show you how to replace a serpentine belt tensioner on this 2005 Ford F150 with the 4.6L V8 engine. The items you'll need for this are a new serpentine belt tensioner from 1AAuto.com, a 1/2" ratchet, piece of pipe for some extra leverage, a 10mm socket and ratchet, a torque wrench, and a flat blade screwdriver.
Using your screwdriver, just loosen up the hose clamp here and right here. Then push the tab on this hose and pull it free. Then pull your air intake hose free.
Now, your serpentine belt tensioner is located right down here. Using a 1/2" ratchet or breaker bar you just want to insert it into that square hole on the tensioner. Then, using a piece of pipe for some extra leverage, just pull the tensioner back and it will loosen up the belt. You can lift the belt up and off the alternator. Then just carefully let the ratchet back down and pull it free. Now you can pull your belt up and out.
Reach way down and pull the belt off of the AC compressor pulley first, which is way down to the left as you're looking at the front of the engine. Then, once it's off of that, go down and pull it off of the crank pulley, which is right in the center of the engine.
Now to remove your tensioner, you want to remove these three 10mm bolts. We'll fast-forward as Mike removes those. You can see he decided to use air-powered tools here. You can do that as well. It just speeds up the process. Then your tensioner will pull free. On the bottom is the old serpentine belt tensioner; above it is the new one from 1A Auto. You can see they're identical and they'll fit exactly the same.
We're just going to put our old one back in because it works fine. Just feed your serpentine belt tensioner back down into place with one bolt at the top already in. Then, once you get it lined up, just tighten that bolt in by hand, and then replace the other two bolts and tighten them all up. Then torque each of these to 25 foot-pounds.
Now you want to follow this belt diagram as you're putting the belt back on. You can reference it again throughout the process. Mike's also going to explain the easiest way to put the belt back. First step for putting the belt on is to make a sharp bend in your new belt. You want to feed that between your tensioner pulley and the idler pulley and go down that way. Need to help it along a little bit here. As that loop goes down, reach down, and this is your AC compressor down here. Put the loop down and around your AC compressor. Now, I'm going to take a loop and loop it down. It's going over the tensioner pulley, but I'm going down and around the crank pulley. Then hopefully you can see on the crank pulley, make sure it gets onto the crank pulley. Then a little tight up and around the water pump pulley here. Then there's an idler pulley, and your power steering pump pulley. I'll leave it off of the alternator for right now. Loop it around the power steering pump pulley over here, around this idler pulley.
Take my pipe, pull as far as I can on the tensioner. I should be able to lift the belt up. I'm going to try and take it off of this idler pulley, get it up onto the alternator, pull my tensioner, and then push the belt down. You can see the idler pulley's the last one, so push it right down under. Replace your air intake hose. Reconnect this hose and then tighten up those two hose clamps.
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In this video, we're going to be working with our 1996 GMC Sierra K1500 5.7-liter V8. We're going to show you how to remove and replace the idler pulley on your serpentine belt.
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Here are the items you'll need for this repair: 13mm socket, ratchet, socket extension, torque wrench
Be sure your vehicle has a belt path diagram somewhere on the cowl or under the hood before removing the belt. If it's missing or unclear, be sure to draw it somewhere under the hood or take a good picture. Put the 3/8 drive of a ratchet into the square on your serpentine belt tensioner and turn it counterclockwise to release tension. Then simply pull the belt off of any one of the pulleys, slowly release the tension from the tensioner. Remove your ratchet, and take the belt off of the pulleys.
Your idler pulley is located at the top center of the engine at the front, right between your alternator and your A/C if your vehicle came equipped. Use a 13mm socket and ratchet to remove the 13mm bolt in the center of the pulley. Remove the pulley from the vehicle.
Now our pulley is still in okay shape, so rather than waste a new part, we're going to reinstall it, but installing your new part will be exactly the same. Simply line up the bolt, which is captured inside of the pulley so it doesn't come out. We'll bring that in as far as we can by hand and then tighten it down with our 13mm socket and ratchet before torqueing. Torque this bolt to 37 foot pounds. Make sure that it rolls smoothly and freely.
Hook the serpentine belt around the crank pulley or harmonic balancer from the passenger side. Be sure that it seats fully into the grooves of the pulley and doesn't lay over the edge on either side. Wrap the driver's side of the belt around the water pump, under the power steering pump on the other side, and up and over the AC compressor. I already have the left side wrapped around the tensioner here just because that's where it falls. Then, from over the AC compressor under the idler pulley, reinstall the ratchet into the tensioner. Turn the ratchet counterclockwise to release the tension, and install your belt over the alternator. Take a second just to look around and make sure that your belt is seated and routed properly before releasing the tension and removing your ratchet.
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Hi, I'm Don from 1A Auto. I hope this how-to video helps you out, and next time you need parts for your vehicle, think of 1AAuto.com. Thanks.
In this video, we're going to show you how to replace the idler pulley on this 2002 Chevy Suburban. It's the same part and process on these Suburbans from 2000 to 2008. The items you'll need for this are a new idler puller from 1Aauto.com, a 10 and 15 mm socket and ratchet, and a flat blade screw driver.
Start off by loosening these two hose clamps, using your flat blade screw driver. We'll just fast forward as Don does this. Just pry this clip out and then pull the hose back. You may need a flat blade screwdriver to help you pry it free. Then pull forward and lift it up and out.
Next, remove these two 10mm bolts, and we'll fast forward as Don does that. Pry the clip on this hose out of the fan shroud. Then remove these four clips around your shroud. To remove these clips, you just pry up the center and then pull the clip out. We'll fast forward as Don does this to the other three. Now, just pull that hose back and lift the shroud straight up and out.
Using a 15 mm socket and ratchet, just put it here on the tensioner. Push down on the tensioner and pull the belt up and over the idler puller. Then, carefully release then tension on the tensioner and loosen this 15 millimeter bolt. We'll just fast forward as Don loosens that. Once you loosen that enough it will just pull free with the pulley. Now, to separate the bolt from the pulley, you just need to pry off this ring and then pull the bolt out.
On the left is the old idler puller. On the right is the new one from 1A Auto. You can see they're identical, and they'll fit exactly the same. Put the bolt back into the idler pulley and then slide that nut down, and then that ring. Make sure that ring's pushed all the way back down in and that you bend those tabs back down if they got popped up when you pried it off. Then, push the pulley back into place with the bolt and just start hand tightening it. Once you've got it started you can use your ratchet to tighten it up the rest of the way. Now, push back down on the tensioner and push the belt back underneath the idler pulley. Then carefully release the tension on the tensioner and pull the ratchet free.
Now, to replace the shroud just push it back down into place. Then replace those four clips. Just push them back down into place and push the center down to lock them. Push the hose back into place and then replace those two 10 mm bolts.
Now, take this air intake hose and push it back down into place on the air intake box, and then, on to the engine. Then just tighten up those two hose clamps. Then just re-clip that hose to the air intake hose, and you're all set.
We hope this video helps you out. Brought to you by www.1AAuto.com, your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the Internet. Please feel free to call us toll-free, 888-844-3393. We're the company that's here for you on the Internet and in person.
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Hi, I'm Mike from 1A Auto. I hope this how-to video helps you out, and next time you need parts for your vehicle, think of 1AAuto.com. Thanks!
In this video, we're going to show you how to replace the serpentine belt tensioner on this 2003 Mercury Mountaineer with the 4.6-liter V8 engine. It's the same part and similar process on most of the Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury trucks that have this same engine. The items that you'll need for this include a new serpentine belt tensioner from 1AAuto.com, 1/2 inch socket bar or ratchet and pipe, long screwdriver, 10mm socket and ratchet, and a torque wrench.
The easiest way to get to your tensioner is from underneath. It's right up here, you just take a 1/2 inch ratchet and push it into that square hole on your tensioner. Using a pipe for extra leverage, it makes this a lot easier. You just pull back, release the tension on the belt, and you can pull it free from this pulley. Then when you release the tension on the ratchet, you actually have to take the fan and make sure it doesn't get caught on the wrong side of the handle. Pull it out like that and then pull your ratchet out.
Now I'm going to reach down, and pull the belt off of the pulley where we already loosened it up, and then you can pull this up and out. You've just got to be careful not to get it caught on the fan too much. I'm going to reach way down on this side and I'm going to put my hand in there like that. I can feel the belt and I can pull it up off the pulley that's down here which is if you look on the diagram, I'm pulling it off of this pulley here and while I'm pulling it off of that pulley, I'm going to pull up on the belt because you have to basically pull it right in between this space here. I'm just guiding it up through there. Now the only place it's on here is the big crank pulley. Again, I'm just reaching down and I just have a hold of the belt right here, I'm pulling it out away from the engine to try and get it off of the crank pulley. If I can reach down in here I could pull it out from the crank pulley, pull it out from the water pump, and then just pull the whole thing right up and out.
Now you want to remove these three 10mm bolts on your serpentine belt tensioner. We'll fast-forward as Mike does this. You may realize that we've disconnected that radiator hose, but you don't need to do that, that was just for shooting purposes. Once you remove those bolts, you can just pull that tensioner up and out.
Up top is the old serpentine belt tensioner; below it is the new one from 1A Auto. You can see they're identical, and they'll fit exactly the same.
Take your new serpentine belt tensioner and feed it down into place. You want to find a gap in the fan blades, some of the gaps are slightly larger in between each blade. You want to find one of the larger gaps, feed the tensioner down in, and then once you've got it somewhat lined up start feeding the bolts in and just get them started, each one by hand. We'll just fast-forward as Mike tightens all those up. Now torque all three of those to 30 foot-pounds.
To reinstall your new belt, what you want to do is put a loop down around the crank first and get it lined up on your water pump. then you basically have to kind of jam a loop right down in between your tensioner, down to this pulley, and then you can line everything else up. First, we'll take it and we'll put the loop down between the fan and the water pump pulley for the crank. It's almost like you're lassoing the crank a little bit. You reach way down in there and grab the belt with your other hand and flip it around the crank. Going underneath this pulley here, you can see the belt right there. I just got to get it pushed on the crank and guide it with my hand and pull it up and around. It's on the crank. The back side that comes up, the belt that comes up from this side of the crank. You got to push in and push it around your water pump pulley and push this loop, you push this loop down onto that side for right now. We're not going to worry about it too much. The harder part is taking this part of the belt right here. Once you have it down and around the crank and pull it up.
Then you just want to take. You probably can't see my fingers, but I'm just pushing it between the idler pulley and the pulley underneath. Just take a long screwdriver and push it right down through there. Now if you want to reach up from the bottom, grab that belt, pull it through, and put it down around your A/C compressor here. Now from up here, I'm just going to pull that tight around that A/C compressor pulley. I'm reaching down with this hand and making sure it's on there correctly. Then I'll put this, this has to go down now around this idler pulley, and push it down, and it's somewhat ready to go around these two pulleys here. Basically, I've got my belt, I've put it first down around the crank pulley, and then I went down around the A/C pulley. Now it's on the alternator, it's underneath this idler pulley, and when I pull my tensioner, I'll put it around these two pulleys the rest of the way.
A quick check and see it's on the crank correctly. It's really not on this A/C pulley correctly, so I'm going to lightly pull on it and get it on around there correctly. After I do that I'm going to reach up in here and pull on the belt a little more, that will tighten it up. I'm going to use a flexible bar and basically, what you want to try and do is slide the bar up in there and just try to feed it in. You'll have to push out against the fan as you're feeding this in and get it to go into the tensioner. You want to have it at just a little bit of an angle, not straight up and down, angle it, feed it up in, and you really have to push back against the fan and force the part in there. Get on there and now I can pull that as far as I can. Reach up on this side, put the belt on, make sure the belt is on the power steering pulley.
From down here, we've got the belt on there correctly. It's on my crank pulley correctly and it's on this one correctly. This is the one that I fed it onto right here. I'll take the wrench off and, again, you have to push back against the fan some. Actually my fan's caught. I'm going to pull it. Make sure you feed the fan underneath and out. Now from the topside, you can see it's on the alternator correctly and it's on these idler pulleys and the water pump correctly.
We hope this video helps you out. Brought to you by www.1AAuto.com, your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the Internet. Please feel free to call us toll-free, 888-844-3393. We're the company that's here for you on the Internet and in person.
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Hi, I'm Mike from 1A Auto. We've been selling auto parts for over 30 years. We're dedicated to delivering quality auto parts, expert customer service, fast and free shipping, all backed by our 100% satisfaction guarantee. Visit us at 1AAuto.com, your trusted source for quality auto parts.
In this video we're going to be working with our 2006 Ford Explorer. We're going to show you how to move and replace your vehicle's serpentine belt tensioner. If you like this video, please click 'Subscribe'. We have a ton more information on this and many other vehicles. If you need this part for your car, you can follow the link down in the description over to 1AAuto.com. Here are the items you'll need for this repair.
Loosen the clamp on the air box side of the intake duct with a flat blade screwdriver. You'll then want to disconnect the breather lines. There's a little green tab here that you just pull back and pop them off. You'll then need to undo the clamp on the throttle body. You'll then want to remove the intake duct.
For some jobs like your alternator or idler pulleys, it may not be necessary to remove the belt fully. However, if the pulley has been dragging from a bad bearing or a weak alternator, it's probably damaged your belt a bit too and it's not a bad idea to replace it while you're in here.
Using a 1/2" drive ratchet, place it into the square drive of the serpentine belt tensioner and rotate the tensioner clockwise to release pressure and remove the belt from one of the pulleys. It's usually easiest to do this from a smooth pulley. Then carefully release tension and remove your ratchet. Remove the serpentine belt from under the A/C compressor and then pull the loop up and through over your tensioner. You'll then want to get it out from under the crack where it loops over the water pump. You've already unhooked it from the idler pulley on this side so loop it out from the grooved idler pulley and the power steering pump and remove your belt.
Remove the three ten millimeter bolts along the top of the serpentine belt tensioner with the ten millimeter socket and ratchet. You can then remove your tensioner from the vehicle.
Here we have our old tensioner that we removed from our vehicle and our new part from 1AAuto.com. As you can see, these parts are exactly the same with the same half inch square drive, same arm and spring mechanism, the same three bolt mounting flange and the same pulley on the bottom. This tensioner is responsible for keeping your serpentine belt up as tight as it can until the belt has stretched past its limits, however the spring mechanism can fail, overtensioning or undertensioning the belt as well as the pulley itself going bad. If you have any of these problems, this new part from 1AAuto is going to go in direct fit, just like your original equipment, and fix you up right.
Reinstall the serpentine belt tensioner along with its three ten millimeter bolts. Once you've got the bolts started, go ahead and tighten them down with your ten millimeter socket and ratchet.
Now reinstalling the serpentine belt on this is going to be pretty difficult to show. You want to start with a loop and send it down and around the crank pulley. Now you're going to take the passenger side of the belt and bring it down between the tensioner and the A/C compressor at the bottom of the motor. With the right side of the belt, you're going to go up and over the water pump pulley all the way to the button of the motor on the driver side, where you'll go under the grooved idler pulley, as well as under the power steering pump pulley. Install your 1/2" drive into the tensioner and rotate it clockwise to release the belt tension. It's usually easiest to get over the alternator, then move your hand to the other side of the engine and go under the smooth idler pulley on the driver side, and then just use a light or your hand to check the belt path and make sure that everything went over and under all the pulleys currently and that it isn't hung up anywhere.
Reinstall the intake duct and pop on the two breather connections, then tighten it down with a flat blade screwdriver.
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