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Gene Davis(Ga.)

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I need to change the serpentine belt on on wife's '05 Escape and then maybe I can get back to working on my tractor project. Looks like you have to go in under the right front fender somehow. Any suggestions or help would be appreciated. It doesn't look like a fun kind of job for a Saturday mechanic. Gene
 
gene, some of them are a bugger to change. best advice is to pick up the belt tensioner tool, napahas em. kind of a long flat bar that has a couple of real short sockets with it to grab teh tensioner bolt. before you remove the old belt, study it for a while and figgure out how it is routed, draw a diagram. most times there is a label under the hood somewhere that shows the routing. release the tension on the belt, slip it off the tensioner and fish it out. fish the new belt in, slip it on the tensioner and good to go.
 
Good advice. I have welded up several custom designed (for a particular engine) belt tensioner tools from a piece of strap iron and a scrap socket. Cheap and works fine.
 
If it looks that complex, save yourself a bunch of grief and pay a shop a half hour or so to do it.

I once changed the heater core in a Buick Century I was driving. The flat rate manual showed 2.8 hours to do it. After I'd spent the biggest share of a day fighting it, I said if I ever was faced with that again, I'd gladly pay someone else 2.8 to do it.

Seems the older I get, the easier it is to pick and choose between the jobs I want to do and jobs I don't want any part of and willingly pay someone else to do. For openers, my wife insists on driving a mini-van, and I refuse to do anything under the hood of a mini-van beyond maintaining fluid levels.
 
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