? pics would help

 

LOL, I hope you're joking...

If not, try a 1/2" drive wrench in the square hole on the tensioner...

 

for some one who has almost 5000 posts i hope your joking

 

I use my 1/2" drive breaker bar in the square hole in the tensioner assembly as indicated above.

 

Actually, now that I think about it, an alternative method would simply be to leave the car in neutral and put a brick on the accelerator. Once the engine reaches high enough RPM, it should toss the belt. I wouldn't suggest standing anywhere near the engine compartment though, because you might get hit by it (or by flying internal engine parts).

 

I've done it before but I'm sure i didn't do it the "right" way.

 

If you can't figure out how to change a serpentine belt, i don't think you should give ANYONE, ANYWHERE, ANY KIND of car maintenance or modification related advice.

Couple this with the fact that you were one of the people advocating the 'cut the trunk floor' method of fuel pump removal and all doubt should be removed about your qualifications to 'help' people work on their cars.

Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic.

 

Uh oh!!!!!!!!

 

I DEFY you to find that I said to cut the trunk floor.

 

not to take sides on this but i do beleive i saw you saying soemthing like that in a post, tas.

 

go search on my name for "fuel pump". There's only about 10 entrys because I have no place to say much of anything on them out of 4454 posts!

 

he never even posted in that thread

https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...hreadid=116326

 

bah. I'd rather have ***** to ask a question than to use another "handle" to ask things like people have been doing for years now. I've pryed the tensioner with a crowbar a couple times. Ooo I didn't know to use a 1/2" drive, big deal. I don't claim to know all. I'm ignorant on a lot of things. If I need to know, I ask. If I'm wrong on something, tell me.

 

go search on my name for "fuel pump". There's only about 10 entrys because I have no place to say much of anything on them out of 4454 posts!

I think is was in another thread but i dont care about it that much nor do i want to be an *** so ill take your word for it.

 

Ahh, come lay off ol' Tas. I have a buddy that knows how to pull his engine, remove the intake, heads and cam, and then reconnect it all. Yet, he didn't know how to adjust the TV cable or pull the SES codes with a paper clip.

Bottom line, we all have our strengths and weaknesses. We are here to LEARN and share our knowledge. I am positive EVERYONE has picked up a little "tid bit" from this board that was probably obvious to EVERYONE yet they never even knew it themselves.

How many people know how to "pick the lock" on the wire leads to the ECM connector? It's really simple if you play with it, yet MOST guys just "cut and splice" and never figure out that it takes only a couple of seconds to "pick the lock" of the wire lead and then you just re-pin it to the proper connector when you do a 165 to 7730 ECM swap. To do all the wires takes less than 15 minutes. Hell, you can't "cut and splice" in that amount of time.

 

If you are really THAT car illiterate (wich is sad since you are a moderator on this site) and you are replacing the belt anyway why not just cut it off? then all you will have to post is the thread asking how to put the new one back on.....



... could also try reading the owners manual or perhaps go into autozone and check out that section in a hanes manual? i dunno im just throwing out ideas here...

 

But seriously, you have nearly 5,000 posts. What do you post about? Do you read the posts you reply to?

 

what's wrong with posting just to raise your post count numbers a little

 

He moderates TBI, not a lot of skill needed when all you do is not adjust anything and not go fast.

:nono:

 

lol... those where the two main reasons i kept my tbi. Dont have to worry about getting more tickets or doing tons of work to get it to run...

 

The role of a Moderator is NOT to answer questions. It's to ensure that every post complies with the rules of "good conduct" that everyone agrees to when they first join Thirdgen.org.

As mentioned by someone else, at least Tas isn't afraid to ask a question in his own name. What is really sad, are the moderators that THINK they know what they are talking about and haven't got a clue what's going on. But, as I said before - a moderator's duty is NOT to answer questions, it's to maintain orderly control.

And just because you ARE the smartest person about cars doesn't meen you would make a good moderator either.

 

A sharp pocket knife should remove that belt pretty quickly. But I do use the breaker bar method to install the belt.

 

or the method of jsut using the two hands that *** gave you... This is the method that i used to take the serp. belt off my old-fart-mobile cutless cierra. But i was alot stronger (and stupider) tehn so i could use my bare hands to do it.

 

wow.....what happened to all the nice help that everyone gets on here no matter what the question.....i remember reading posts where some mechanics have brain farts and admit to asking something that may have seemed stupid and didt get flamed that hard.....now unless i missed the post where he claimed to be a car ***......he was simply asking a question to people that he knew would know the answer and wouldnt flame him for confirming a simple thing..

i feel bad for any newbies that now feel too embarassed to ask simple stuff...........


if he didnt know how to take off a belt then oh well

but dont hang the man

damn guys....calm down

 

There's a little difference between a newbie with 5 posts asking this question and a moderator with 5000 posts asking it.

 

Someone should close it for lack of technical content. I mean seriously, a serp belt, how much tech content can their be?!

 

why would the word or name *** be censored?i mean goddamnit why the **** would it be?

 

and why wasn't goddamnit censored?

 

ok so then what is the official number of posts allowed before you arent allowed to ask simple questions.......i just want to know so i can keep an eye on my posts........


or is it just being a moderator that makes it like that


even though it was stated that a moderaters job is not to know everything but to simply regulate the boards


i give him props for admitting that he didnt know something like that


to the rest of you that flamed him..........shame shame

 

i think it was the whole him being a moderator thing that set people off. I guess everyone has the preconception that all moderators are supposed to be certified gm techs or something and not like the rest of us and dammit, why is this still open? It just keeps coming back to the top.

 

Because, goddammit, if you can't figure out how to take the serpentine belt off, then you need to pick another hobby. It really is that easy.

 

Good reading comprehension skills jerkass. I took the belt of not even 2 weeks ago to put headers on. Like I said above, I used a prybar and not the 1/2" drive like someone said was the "right" way to do it.

 

Oh, I read what you posted just fine.

 

i think we've all had too much fun with this on haven't we?