how do you remove a serpentine belt? what does the tensioner look like?

 

idler pulley lookign thing mounted on an arm, not a drive pulley to an accessory. has a 13mm or 15mm hex or maybe used a 1/2" breaker bar to move it

 

the tensioner is where the idler pulley is.. is up high on the engine acessories.. i usually take a racket and stick it in hole then press down to pull the idler puller high enough to get the belt to come off, it takes 2 minutes to change a belt, just make sure you follow the right path of the belt..

good luck

 

It's at the top of this photo:

 

Hm, that's an interesting pic. I don't like that routing very much, since the ribs will ride on the idler. Is the spring reversed?

Kinda cool that the alternator is in the smog pump position; I'm assuming to make room for a turbo or two.

 

I'm not sure about the idler rotation. That was an early attempt by Jester to reroute his belt on his twin-turbo setup. You'd have to ask him how the final assembly was done.

 

Here is a pic iroczrockz posted yesterday, it shows his routing to bypass the smog pump and compressor, and in the lower left hand corner is a diagram of the real routing. The tensioner is centered in the pic.

 

hmm do u know what size belt is needed for that? and what the belt routing is for that? i think im gonna do that..

hmm i just noticed that the ribs of the belt are on the tensioner pully. that shouldn't hurt it right?

 

ahh. hmm never mind.. i found it.. https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...hreadid=144127