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You use a special tool to move the belt tensioner to release tension on the belt. Sometimes you can use a regular wrench if you have enough room.
Make sure you have a diagram or draw one of the routing of the belt before you remove it so you know how to put the new one back on.
The serpentine belt diagram is usually under the hood on the radiator support. If it's not available you can figure out the routing with the following information. (1) the belt will wrap nearly all the way around each pulley; it will not merely wrap around a small area of any pulley. (2) The ribbed side of the belt will go into grooves on the pulleys, and any pulley without grooves is driven from the back or flat side of the belt. The tensioner pulley is almost always smooth and driven on the back side of the belt. Hope this helps.
There is a diagram in the engine compartment itself that displays belt routing and removal.
When you look at the engine and all the pulleys that the serpentine belt goes around, one of those pulleys will have a "tensioner" on it. On that "tensioner", there should be a square looking slot for you to insert a socket extension to or you may have enough room to just use the socket drive handle itself.
Rotate counter clockwise until you have relieved enough tension to slide the belt off. Reverse the procedure for re-installation.
under the hood should be a dieagram on proper install follow the pictures you will need a 3/8th or 1/2 in drive ratchet for the idler pully make shore to seat the belt in all the pullys good luck cj
Usually the fuse diagram is located inside the glove box on a sticker. If yours is gone, check out your local library for the big book on the tempo. Hope this helps, KJS
Starting at the crankshaft pulley, and going clockwise, the belt leaves the crank pulley, Goes around the tensioner, Goes around the water pump Goes around the alternator Goes around the upper idler Goes around the Power Steering pump Goes around the air conditioner pulley then goes back to the Crank pulley
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