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The Serpentine Belt doesnt fit 99 plymouth breeze 2.4L with a/c
I routed the belt around the c/s,a/c,alt+ under the idler. I understand there is a tensioner on the alternator to tighten it. But still, this 53"belt is way too long,it looks like it should be a 50" or 49"belt. Nothing has been changed on this car engine wise. All stores are telling me its a 53" belt for the make+model, but its way too long. Can anyone help?
Re: The Serpentine Belt doesnt fit 99 plymouth breeze...
I have the same car we had the same problem we ended up getting Dayco 5060495 It worked perfectly. For some reason it calls for a way bigger belt- but doesn't fit at all! Hope this helps
Re: The Serpentine Belt doesnt fit 99 plymouth breeze...
I looked up your car, but it showed both engines in the 1999 Breeze having individual belts, so i could not get an answer about the length of the serpentine. If you go to this website and input your car info, it will give you the belt length and routing diagram.
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these have a serpentine belt and the tensioner is below the alternator and requires a special tool to move it. you can try using a wrench that will fit on the belt tensioner but you won`t have much room to move it. look under the hood around the upper rad support for a decal it may still be there. if it is it shows the belt routing and were the tensioner is.
When installing a serpentine belt you have to wind off the belt adjuster first .Then when routing the belt the grooves (inside of the belt) go around the driven pulleys and the idlers run on the back of the belt. If you have the right belt for the engine but it appears too short or too long ,then check the way you have fitted it and see if there are any grooves on the inside of the belt running on a pulley that has no grooves(idler pulley)
you can go to auto zone and tell them you need a routing diagram for the serpentine belt on your 2.0., they should be able to make you one. have a good day !! are you sure there is not a diagram under hood.
you can get step by step instructions from a chilton manual. i go to the library, and copy the page or pages i need. libraries have every chilton auto manuals. may have to rent a specialty tool for belt tensioner pulley. can be rented at any parts store, money is returned when tool is. usually 20 bucks. put tool on tension pulley, pull to loosen belt tension, with other hand slip belt off of alternator or easiest pulley to get to. before you take belt off take a mental picture of belt route. when installing new belt remember if pulley is smooth it contacts smooth side of belt.
For the 3.0L Vulcan, you have a tensioner that is located just below the power steering pully. Use a 15mm wrench or the 15mm shallow well socket that comes in a Serpentine Belt tool to push the tensioner toward the rear of the engine compartment. Take the old belt off and route the new belt. The belt begins at the crankshaft pully, goes under and around the a/c compressor, up around the power steering pump, around (with the flat edge) the idler pully, around the alternator, the flat edge then sits against the tensioner and back around to the water pump pully. You should have a belt routing diagram on the underside of the hood just above the serpentine pully assembly.
All you need is a long prubar (or you can rent a tensioner wrench at the parts store) essentially a open end wrench with a 3 ft handle.
Put the tensioner wrench on the nub of the tensioner and pull back... this will release the tension on the old belt. Remove it from one of the pulleys, and then from the entire system.
Note how it is routed through the pulleys, and put the new one on the same way.
The car should have a sticker on the radiator support telling you the path of the belt.
look around the power steering pump, (Under or maybe behind) you should see a belt tensioner, loosen it and any other brackets close to that have a sliding point, once loose, the belt should slip right6 off, pay close attichion to the way it comes off, you don't wanna put it back on backwards, or your water pump will run in the wrong direction and cause it to over heat
Well, first of all you don't "loosen" the tensioner. Tighten that back up. Route the belt as it should go. Put a 15mm open-end or box end wrench on tensioner bolt (in the middle of tensioner.) To make this really easy, I use a "cheater" (a pipe large enough in diameter to go over wrench) to give added leverage to pull down tensioner far enough to slide belt over. Personally, I route the belt over everything except the idler pulley then pull down on the tensioner far enough to slip the belt on the idler. Because of the small cleareance, trying to use a socket on this bolt is almost impossible however, the previous is the method I've learned to be the most efficient.
David
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