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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 serpentine belt on this 2001 Ford Escort ZX2 with the dual overhead cam engine. It's a little involved but not that complicated of a project. You will need a 10 millimeter socket and ratchet, as well as a 13 millimeter socket and ratchet.
The first thing you're going to want, before you do this repair, is a belt diagram. We have a nice one made up for you right here. It should give you a pretty good representation of how the belt is routed. Starting with the top left, that's the alternator. Then going to the right, that's an idler pulley. That goes to the power steering pump, then down to the A/C compressor, then over to the crankshaft, then to the tensioner pulley, then to the water pump, another idler pulley and up to the alternator.
In the lower front and right front wheel area, there's seven 10 millimeter bolts that hold the splash pan in place. In this case in our car there's only four and you're going to remove all of them. Actually what we find is we take off one, and the pan bends down and we try to remove the other ones, but the clips in behind were so rusted that we decided we didn't want to break all them, so we just left it that way and just let the pan or the splash guard hang down out of the way. I've got a 13 millimeter socket on the end of my ratchet and I'm going to put it on the bolt that goes through the pulley, the tensioner pulley, and I'm going to turn it clockwise to remove the pressure on the belt, and then slide the belt off the crank, and the rest of the pulleys. Now the rest of the way, it's a matter of just pulling it down, twisting it a little bit to get it off some of the pulleys. Then you could also pull it off from the top as well.
You're not really going to be able to see me doing the belt, but sneak it back in, follow the diagram for routing it. That first step that Don just did was, he just got the belt down, down below the A/C and the crank pulley preliminarily. What Don just did there was that there's just some clearance issues getting by the water pump and those tensioner pulleys, so he just twisted it at the side and got it over on its way to the alternator. The top part it's pretty much done. It's around the alternator, underneath the idler and over the power steering. Now, I want to get this belt on the other side of this pulley, the ribbed pulley here, so I'm going to twist it and try not to have it fall off the alternator pulley, which is right above it. All right, good. Now what we've done here is we pulled a loop across and you can see I'm helping him out a little bit just holding the belt off of the A/C pulley so he can pull the loop from that tensioner on the backside of the motor towards the front and put it onto the tensioner in the front of the engine. In order to get the wrench in there it's better to have the pulley off of the crank rather than the A/C pulley, so he just transfers it, takes it off the crank so he has enough room to get it on.
I'm using a 15 millimeter here, which is what the new one came with and turning it clockwise. I have to release the tension on the bearing and I've got to make sure too that all my belts are on the pulleys, because if they're off a little bit it's not going to give me the room I need. So everything is on except for the crank pulley. As I do this it's going to give me more room. I'm going to hold it tight. You can see Don, is working the wrench with the right hand and then using his left hand to push the belt up onto the crank pulley. Make sure they're all on. Make sure all of them are on and the belt is lined up with the teeth on your pulleys and plug you're A/C back in if you took that off to gain more flexibility getting in there. I'm just going to give it one more look up top and below. I want to make sure the tooth belt is seated correctly on the power steering, alternator, water pump, and below this idler pulley. Once you've done that just put the splash pan back up and bolt it back in place.
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Hi. I'm Mike Green. I'm one of the owners of 1A Auto. I want to help you save time and money repairing and maintaining your vehicle. I'm going to use my 20+ years' experience restoring and repairing cars and trucks like this to show you the correct way to install parts from 1AAuto.com. The right parts installed correctly. That's going to save you time and money. Thank you and enjoy the video.
In this video we're going to show you how to remove and replace the serpentine belt on this 2001 Ford Taurus. The specific routing diagram is specific to this Taurus with a 3.0 liter motor in it, but the procedure itself is pretty much like any vehicle. Loosen the tensioner and either slide the belt off or slide it back on.
You can see down in here, you can see your alternator is here. This is an idler pulley that you can easily see. Then down further here this is your belt tensioner and this is a 15 mm bolt right in the middle of the pulley of the belt tensioner. You want to take a 15-mm wrench and hook it on there. Then if you're really strong you can probably pull on that 15-mm wrench and maybe loosen up the belt and maybe you can hook it on with a little different angle here.
Now I'm going to take a larger wrench, okay, and I'm going to hook it into my 15 mm which gives me more leverage. As I push on this you can see the belt starts to loosen up. Basically, you want to push the tensioner as far as you can clockwise and then take your belt and flip it off your alternator. Then release your tensioner slowly. Then you can basically fish your belt out. It winds all in around.
The belt, you want to inspect it. This one is actually in really good shape. You can see the turnover. There's no cracking. Even on these ribs. Okay. You might see some cracking on the ribs. That's not a big deal. What you really want to do is look at the outside and see if there's any wear that's visible. This one is in good shape so I'll put it back on. You usually want to replace your belt every 50,000 miles or if you see any kind of wear on it.
To get the belt back down in Okay, so here's the belt routing diagram for this Taurus with the 3 liter. This is specific just to this car or this series of cars. So, you can see how the belt is supposed to be routed. You can see way down in there you see these little guys sticking out. That is your AC compressor. So, you want to take the belt and I'm kind of turning it to the side. Get it in front of that AC compressor and then down and around. I've just kind of stuffed it
sideways down there and now down here you can see the pulley way down there. That's your crank pulley. So, just carefully put it around that. Then follow your diagram.
Put the belt up here and around the power steering. It goes around the crank pulley and then around the belt tensioner and around the water pump. Then around your idler pulley and then you take this loop and pull it back up towards the alternator. It looks like everything is pretty much in place. There's still quite a bit of tension. Pull on it more. Feel each pulley. Make sure that the belt is on it pretty well. I've got it pulled up and put my 15-mm wrench down on my tensioner. Want to get it at about 11 o'clock or 12 o'clock. Put my other wrench on. Pull the tensioner. Bring it up around the alternator. Make sure it's on the idler and then let the tensioner off. You can just check and look and make sure it's all routed correctly and we should be all set. We'll reconnect the battery, start it up and make sure it's not making any strange noise or doesn't look like it is wobbling or anything.
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