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Hi, I’m Mike from 1A Auto. We’ve been selling auto parts for over 30 years!
Remove the belt cover here. Spray some rust penetrant on this bolt and nut, and a little bit on this nut, a little bit on this bolt here. Use a 10 millimeter socket extension and ratchet and remove this one. And remove this one here. Take the nut off and remove this cover. Just pull it off. It does have the throttle cable and the cruise control cable clipped to it. Pull it up and unclip it. It pulls straight up. Normally, that's clipped in there. Just over time, it's gotten old and cracked, so the clip came right out. We're going to flip this over and push that one out. And we can just put this aside.
This particular vehicle doesn't use an auto-tensioner for the belts. It has two separate drive belts, both with manual tensioners. So you need to adjust these and set your belt tension, and the same for the other one down here that runs the air conditioning pulley. And these belts feel fairly tight, but they are squealing. And you can typically, the belts do stretch over time, you could try to readjust them. But these are looking pretty worn. They've got a lot of rust staining on them, and basically every time you start the car when it's cold, they squeal really loudly. And once they start to squeal, they're kind of ruined. We'll replace them with new belts from 1A Auto, and re-tension them. And we'll have brand new belts.
So we need to loosen the alternator bolt. Spray some rust penetrant on her. Bolt goes all the way through. 12 millimeter bolts. Get it loose and we can loosen the tensioner. The tensioner here has two bolts, one to set the tension, and then one under here to lock it in place on the bracket. You don't need to fully remove it, so just loosen the locking bolt underneath before you try to release the tensioner, or else it's not going to move on you, and you could break this bracket.
Loosen this bolt using 12 millimeter socket extension and ratchet. You don't have to take it all the way out, just get it loose. It goes all the way through into the alternator. That should be good enough. It's still tension. Now I can loosen this. Make sure that before you loosen the tensioner bolts, or attempt to loosen the tensioner bolts, that you loosen the alternator bolt. It should make it easier to turn, because it's not trying to push against the alternator.
Even still, after doing this, our tensioner bolt broke because it was frozen into the little bracket piece that is bolted into the alternator. So just make sure that you have an extra bolt on hand if your vehicle is very rusty. It might break. Tensioner loose can push the alternator down. Pull the belt right off. I'll slide it in between here. You can see some wear. It's kind of worn smooth. The outside's pretty rough.
If you just want to replace the alternator power steering belt, you can stop here. But to replace the air conditioning belt, you do need to take off this belt first. So now we can take off the air conditioning belt. I'm going to use some break parts cleaner, clean the pulleys off, any of the rust penetrant I sprayed on there. There's little bits of rubber here that are stuck inside of the pulley that have worn off from the belt. You can use a wire brush to break them free and clean them out of there. Go around the pulley. If you have access to compressed air, you can also blow off the pulley. Install the alternator and power steering pump pulley. Let's get this down in here. Feed it down in front of the engine. Down around the pulley. Make sure it's seated.
The alternator is loose. I can push this down. Go around the power steering pump. All right, so it popped off the crank pulley. That's going to be the trickiest part is getting it to stay on the crank pulley. I'm going to do the alternator last. Although, if you have to, you can slide it up over the alternator. Clearance is tight, but you can get in here. And sometimes, if you make sure it's all the way on one of these other pulleys, it will flip down over the crank. Don't want to use a pry bar to put these on, to pry the belt on, you can ruin the belt.
Got my hand down here—I'm going to hold it near the crank pulley, and then I'm going to pop it off the top of the alternator pulley. I'm going to slide it over the crank pulley. I can see it's still over the power steering pump pulley. Push the alternator down a bit and kind of work it on. The alternator doesn't go down far enough. You can loosen this bolt up. Push it down a little bit more. That is at the bottom of the bracket. Oh, see it popped out of the power steering pump bracket pulley. Because if it's not fully seated on the pulley, it's not going to have enough give. And this is good that the belt is nice and tight, because it starts out nice and tight. So you just kind of work it over. There it is. So wasn't quite seated in the crank pulley. Give me a little tension trying to put it over the alternator pulley.
But now I can see it's in all of the pulleys. It's seated nice and even. Now we can start to tension this back up. You can actually pull this up a bit by hand. And so I don't have to thread this forever, I'm going to thread it down by hand. Tighten this up. Again, I'm going to do that by feel. Couple more. It's the same specification with about 22 foot-pounds of force. It should be a deflection of seven to nine millimeters. I think I'm happy with that right there. Now I've got the belt tensioned. Going to lock our tensioner in place. This is 16 foot-pounds. I will do it by feel. Don't over-tighten it, because you don't want to break the ear on the alternator. It’s tight. I will stop.
And the final step will lock the alternator in place now. So re-tighten this bolt here with a socket extension. This bracket needs to go straight up and down. Feel that get tight and I'll stop. Can start the car to check the tension and readjust if necessary. Going to reinstall the plastic cover. It's got this little plastic part that's going to sit in this rubber mount. Push down into place. Also, feed it over this stud that's over here. Reinstall the screw, reinstall the nut. Reinstall this bolt here. Clip our throttle cable, cruise control cable's back in. Some later vehicles might not have these.
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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 A/C serpentine belt on this 2003 Subaru Outback, which has the 2.5 litre motor, and the only tools you'll need are a 10mm and 12mm sockets with a ratchet and a 6 inch extension.
Use a 10mm socket and ratchet or a wrench and remove two bolts: one from here and one over here. There may also be a nut here; it seems to be missing on my vehicle. Okay, now I'm using a 12mm socket with an extension and a ratchet. I'm going to loosen this bolt here. This allows this shield to come right off; then there's another 12mm bolt right under here, under this adjusting bolt. Loosen that, and then loosen this bolt.
Now, fast forward here as I just loosen that adjusting bolt, and as you loosen it you'll see the belt start to loosen. You do need to loosen it way up, in order to peel that belt off the alternator and then remove it. Pull the belt right off. Now, down in here, we're going to want to loosen this bolt here. Now my 12mm has an extension on here, which makes it a little easier, on that adjustment bolt here. Turn that counterclockwise. Again, just fast forward it here. As you turn that bolt counterclockwise, again the belt will loosen up until you can take it off of the A/C compressor and then the crank pulley as well.
Now, you probably want to loosen up your tensioner bolt all the way. Put your new belt right down in. The belt on this car is actually fine; I just need to replace the tensioner. Make sure that it's in the grooves on the crank pulley here. Pull it up; put it in the grooves of your A/C compressor, and right on, and then tighten up your tensioner bolt. Then, as you start getting it tighter, you want to take the belt, press on it, and you want it to move between an eighth and a quarter of an inch. Then tighten up the pulley bolt down here. Then we put some penetrant on here, to make it a little easier to turn things. Loosen this up further.
I'll put on my old belt; it's still in good shape. New belts from 1A Auto are the exact same length and dimensions, so they'll go right on. Put it on. Sometimes it's easier actually to get it on to the two larger pulleys first, then onto the alternator. Make sure it's on all the pulleys correctly, and now just tighten up this tensioner bolt, and once you have that tightened, there's about a quarter of an inch of play up and down. Tighten up this bolt to lock it in place.
Then I'll fast forward this here as we just finish it up. I put the metal bracket back on, slide it behind that bolt in the alternator, and then put the 10mm bolt in the top, and tighten those up and then put the plastic shield back on, and use 10mm bolt, and also there's probably another 10mm nut that was missing on my vehicle, that you would need to tighten up.
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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 power steering belt on this 2004 Chrysler Sebring. The only tools you'll need are a jack and jack stands, 13mm and 19mm sockets and a ratchet and a ½ inch ratchet.
To start off, you want to remove your wheel. You want to remove the 19mm lug nuts. You want to loosen them while they're on the ground, raise the vehicle, and then remove them the rest of the way. Unless you have air powered tools, then you can do the entire process up in the air.
Before you go pulling off the belts, locate your belt diagram. This one is towards the front of the vehicle and this is for the 6-cylinder 2.7 liter. This obviously helps you route those belts correctly before you put them on.
Now with the wheel off, you can see the entire serpentine belt. You want to loosen up this bolt at the top of your tensioner. We'll fast forward as Don does this. Now, you want to loosen the lower bolt here on the tensioner. As he loosens it, you'll see that the tensioner goes slack, and now you can pull your serpentine belt off the pulleys.
Your power steering belt is this belt that's right here. You're going to want to loosen that upper 13mm bolt right there and we'll fast forward as Don does this. Now with your ½ inch ratchet, you want to stick it into that square there and push that tensioner up. You can see the belt gets looser. You can now pull the power steering belt off the pulley.
Take your power steering belt; push it back up into place. Now, use your ½ inch ratchet and put it into the square hole and pull on the tensioner. You want to tighten up the belt until, basically, when you grab hold of it, you can move it back and forth about a quarter of an inch; an eighth to a quarter of an inch. Then, while you're still putting some pressure on your ratchet, tighten up the bolt that holds it in place.
Just take a quick look here again at the belt diagram to make sure we put that serpentine belt on correctly. You can also see pretty clearly in this shot how the belt goes back on. The only thing you can't see is the alternator, but you would want the ribbed side going over that. Now using your ½ inch ratchet you want to pull that tensioner down and then tighten those bolts up. We'll fast forward as Don tightens those the rest of the way.
Now, we'll continue to fast forward as Don replaces the wheel. You want to replace your lug nuts while it's still jacked up. Lower the vehicle and tighten them the rest of the way. Then you want to use your torque wrench and torque them to 100 foot-pounds.
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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 belt that drives the alternator and power steering pump on this 2003 Subaru Outback. This vehicle has a 2.5-liter engine. Only tools you'll need are 10mm and 12mm sockets with a ratchet and extension.
Use a 10mm socket and ratchet or wrench and remove two bolts: one here and one under here. There may also be a nut here it seems to be missing on my vehicle. Now I'm using a 12mm socket with an extension and a ratchet. I'm going to loosen this bolt here up. This will allow the shield to come right off.
Then there's another 12mm bolt right under here, under this adjusting bolt loosen that. Then loosen this bolt. I'll fast-forward here as I just loosen that adjusting bolt, and as you loosen it you'll see the belt start to loosen. You do usually need to loosen it way up in order to peel that belt off the alternator and then remove it. Then pull the belt right off.
Put on my old belt since it's still in good shape. New belts from 1A Auto are the exact same length and dimensions so they'll go right on. Put it on, and sometimes it's easier actually to get it onto the two larger pulleys first and then onto the alternator, Make sure it's on all the pulleys correctly and now just tighten up this tensioner bolt. Once you have that tightened so there's about 1/4 inch of play up and down, tighten up this bolt and it'll lock it in place.
I'll fast-forward this here as we just finish it up, put the metal bracket back on, slide it behind that bolt in the alternator, and then put the 10mm bolt in the top and then tighten those up. Then put the plastic shield back on and use 10mm bolt and also there's probably another 10mm nut that was missing on my vehicle that you would need to tighten up.
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