changing a serpentine belt on a ford ranger

To get the belt back down in Okay, so here's the belt routing diagram for this Taurus with the 3 liter. You usually want to replace your belt every 50,000 miles or if you see any kind of wear on it. This one is in good shape so I'll put it back on. What you really want to do is look at the outside and see if there's any wear that's visible. This one is actually in really good shape. Then you can basically fish your belt out. Basically, you want to push the tensioner as far as you can clockwise and then take your belt and flip it off your alternator. As I push on this you can see the belt starts to loosen up. Now I'm going to take a larger wrench, okay, and I'm going to hook it into my 15 mm which gives me more leverage. Then if you're really strong you can probably pull on that 15-mm wrench and maybe loosen up the belt and maybe you can hook it on with a little different angle here. You want to take a 15-mm wrench and hook it on there. Then down further here this is your belt tensioner and this is a 15 mm bolt right in the middle of the pulley of the belt tensioner. This is an idler pulley that you can easily see. You can see down in here, you can see your alternator is here. Loosen the tensioner and either slide the belt off or slide it back on. The specific routing diagram is specific to this Taurus with a 3.0 liter motor in it, but the procedure itself is pretty much like any vehicle. In this video we're going to show you how to remove and replace the serpentine belt on this 2001 Ford Taurus. I'm going to use my 20+ 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. Brought to you by your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the internet.

Changing a serpentine belt on a ford ranger