How Do I Take Off Drive Belts... Plz Help Now!!!

[kppk1986]

Hi guys right now, i mean right now literaly in my garage, im trying to take off the front crank pulley... But i need to take off the drive belts first how do i take those damn things off???

[nab911]

Cut em if you need new ones, or find the adjutable pully on ech one and loosen the adjusting bolt. Now sure the on SR but there is a bolte on the end of a sliding hinge looking that that lets it loosen all the tention on each pully.

[Hijacker]

start with the PS pump. You'll need to rotate the crank around so you can line up one of the two holes on the PS Pulley with the pivot bolt. It's a 14mm. Then you'll need to loosen the 12mm nut on the front of the PS bracket. It's part of the block that the tensioner bolt worms through. Then you can simply loosen the tensioner bolt till you can take the belt off. Mine has a problem where the hoses keep it taught, so I have to push down hard on the pump to get it to loosen.

The AC is next and all you need to do is break the 14mm nut on the tensioner pulley and then loosen it's tension bolt.

The alternator is a bit of a pain, but it's the same procedure as the PS pump.

After all that, put the car in 4th gear with the e-brake on. Take a 1 1/16th socket (i think it's 1 1/16ths) to the crank bolt and break it. back it off a little but leave it in about 3 or 4 turns. If you're lucky you can use some prybars and pop the crank pulley off, but if you're like every other SR i've ever done this to, you'll need a pulley puller.

Good luck

[ca18det_boy]

just for my own knowledge, how is it that you have this motor but don't know how to take the belts off? Did you have someone else do the swap?