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If your vehicle does not have an auto tensioner insert a pry bar or piece of wood between the alternator and the engine. Total for parts was 200.
The instructions are perfect.
How to get belt back on alternator. How to replace alternator belt if the air conditioner is broken you can use a short serpentine belt without air conditioning. Put the new belt on the alternator loop. First wrap it around the water pump pulley then the engine pulley the grove closest to the engine and lastly around the alternator.
As you tighten bolt 3 check the tension on the belt with yourcalibratedfinger. The belt need to be tightened so that 22 lbs causes 13 inch deflection. Disconnect the car battery and loosen the auto-tensioner using either a breaker bar or a socket wrench.
Once the tension is released slide the belt off the pulleys. Get the new alternator belt and run it through the pulleys in the same way as the old belt snaking it around the alternator. You need to loosen the bolt that holds the adjusting bolt in place I usually do the bolt that the alternator pivots on as well then back out the adjustment bolt for the alternator then back it out more cause you didnt go far enough then slip the belts on.
I cant get the alternator belt back on my car. It appears that I have loosened the pulley as much as possible. Is there anything else that will provide more slack.
First of all make sure you have the right pulley. If you cant get the belt on without the tensioner even being in the vehicle then make sure your belt routing is correct. Another trick is to slide the belt on over a pulley or idler that runs off the backsmooth side of the belt once the V-groove side is properly seated in the grooved pulleys.
I did mine last week. Had to change the alternator so went ahead and did the belt. Turns out one of the pulleys on the tensioner was bad and also the idler pulley.
The instructions are perfect. The hardest part is getting the belt around the back side of the inside tensioner pulley. Tighten the tension on the alternator belt by moving the alternator back and keeping tension on it by holding it back with a long screwdriver.
While the alternator belt is tight use a socket wrench to tighten up the bolt on the alternator. How to Install Remove Replace an Alternator - YouTube. Now tilt the alternator back to where it was.
This will take the slack out of the belt. Youll have to push pretty hard against the alternator to get the belt tight. Once its tight tighten down.
How To STOP ALTERNATOR BELT Squeaking Chirping Noise FOREVER. Increase the tension on the belt. If your vehicle does not have an auto tensioner insert a pry bar or piece of wood between the alternator and the engine.
Run the belt over the alternator pulley then use the bar to pry the alternator away from the engine and increase the tension on the belt. Whilst off-roading on Sunday my alternator Fan Belt snapped - getting a new Fan Belt fitted is relatively easy by undoing the two bolts on the cross-bar between alternator and the engine and move alternator upwards cupping hands underneath it. Sadly on my 54plate Jimny you have to remove the Power Steering PS Belt FIRST.
This is a how-to video on a 1999-2000 Mazda Protege 18L Sedan. It is very easy to install and replace your alternator and belts. Total for parts was 200.
There is a bolt quite near the top but towards the back of the 18 vvti engine thanks to Haynes Manual and it is dead easy to remove the belt but a bit fiddly to loop a new one back on. Haynes manual suggests coming from below but if you dont have big. Sometimes it is hard putting on a new belt the tensioner need to give you slack to get the belt on It should be a metric bolt in the center of the tensioner and needs to use a breaker bar with socket and put it on center bolt of the tensioner and push it lightly clockwise.
That will move the tensioner away from the belt giving it. I know from the operators manual that I have to take off the FEL and the engine compartment side panel loosen the alternator to make slack then feed the new belt around the radiator fan tighten alternator back down etc. But from what I can see this belt is behind the other belt that connects to some components on the right side pump.
When the belt is routed correctly the smooth back side of the belt will only run around smooth pulleys and the grooved pulleys will always have the ribbed side of the belt running around them. If the radiator fan is run by the water pump pulley that must spin in the direction that blows air toward the engine. From the bottom of the tensioner where the pulley is.
You can get a long open-end wrench on there and rotate it. Route the belt on everything but the alternator. When tension is released slip it over the alternator.