changing a serpentine belt on a ford ranger

You can see here on the left is the new one and on the right is the original. And then you'll see it comes right up and out. You'll need a T47 screw bit to get in there and I'm just going to fast forward taking that off, because it's kind of boring just turning your wrench. Now with the idler pulley removed you can see that your tensioner's right down there and that's a T47 Torx screw. Now I'm going to do the rest of this by hand and then pull the idler pulley up and out. You just pull that 15mm bolt right out of there. Now you're going to want to remove your idler pulley to allow you easier access to the belt tensioner, so that's just a 15mm bolt and then again I use the larger wrench on there for some extra leverage. Now I can pull the belt up and out and the wrenches up and out. Now I'm going to pull that idler pulley over and as I push you might be able to see the tension give on the belt and then I flip the belt right off of the idler pulley. What I'm doing is I'm using a larger wrench to hook onto that 15mm wrench and give it some more leverage. What you want to do is take a 15mm wrench and put it on to that belt tensioner and then you're going to push it clockwise to loosen the tension on the belt. Okay, so right here is your idler pulley and then right down and bellow is your belt tensioner. First you want to disconnect your negative battery cable, you probably need to use an 8mm wrench to loosen it. The right parts installed correctly, that's going to save you time and money. I'm going to use my 20 plus years experience restoring and repairing cars and trucks like this, to show you the correct way to install parts from. I want to help you save time and money, repairing and maintaining your vehicle.

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Changing a serpentine belt on a ford ranger