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Never replaced serpentine belt, help
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My serpentine belt needs replacing, its pretty cracked, im guessing the stock tensioner pulley is spring loaded so is there any way to lock it in the "loose" posistion so i can replace the belt then put it back to the running posistion?
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i forget what size it is but get a closed end wrench put it on and push away from the belt.... this lets the force of the belt allowing u to take it off... just check the digram to see the way it goes back on.
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never done one of my car yet, but changed the alternator on my friends cavalier and to relieve tension, i put a 15mm boxed end wrench on the bolt of the pulley of the tensioner, and turned it clockwise, if you turn it counter-clockwise the bolt lossens and the pulley comes off of the tensioner, i know a cavalier is not a LS1 camaro but being that its GM i think they would use the same style design with a 15mm and clockwise turning
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however, i just remembered this, on my cousins 84 corvette, the tensior was turned by using a breaker bar and putting the square peg into a square hole on the tensior, as i said before, i havent looked at mine so im not sure which design ours have
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Originally Posted by LiquidFire350
never done one of my car yet, but changed the alternator on my friends cavalier and to relieve tension, i put a 15mm boxed end wrench on the bolt of the pulley of the tensioner, and turned it clockwise, if you turn it counter-clockwise the bolt lossens and the pulley comes off of the tensioner, i know a cavalier is not a LS1 camaro but being that its GM i think they would use the same style design with a 15mm and clockwise turning
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I have not replaced the serpentine belt on my LS1 engine yet but on my other GM engines I loosen the tension on the serpentine belt by turning the tensioner pulley clockwise. I'd guess the LS1 engine is the same: clockwise on the tensioner.