how to replace a serpentine belt?

Question

96 plymoth voyager

Answer 1

Pictures and instructions on how to replace a serpentine belt.

Instructions can be found towards the bottom of the page:

http://www.autozone.com/servlet/UiBroker?ForwardPage=/az/cds/en_us/0900823d/80/1a/37/17/0900823d801a3717.jsp

Answer 2

Or you could do what my son and I did a few weeks ago.

1. Remove tensioner
2. Take off old belt.
3. Get out new belt and try and remember how the old belt went over all the pulleys. (how hard could it be?)
4. Look under hood for a diagram (didn't find it)
5. Try about 5 or 6 different ways that looked like they should work. (but didn't)
6. Finally figure out the right path
7. Uh... now how we gonna get the tensioner back on???
8. Loosen belt off one pulley to put tensioner back on, then force the belt over the tensioner.
9. Use wrench to tighten tensioner bolt and figure out that we could have used wrench to move tensioner and get belt off and then back over it real easy without removing it - duh!!
10. Job complete! Next time it will only take about 1/3 of the time. But hey - it was still way cheaper than paying a mechanic to do it.

Good luck and have fun.

Answer 3

find tensioner....loosen
remove old belt
thread new belt according to diagram
remove wrench from tensioner to tighten

Answer 4

there should be a drawing right by the radiator.