belt placement

Asked by MonkeyNutts Dec 23, 2018 at 09:18 AM about the 2008 Kia Sportage LX

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

looking for a guide for belt placement to alternator belt

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The gist of swapping any serpentine belt is this: put a socket on the belt tensioner and turn it (usually counterclockwise) that takes the tension off the belt and you can remove it. Take a digital pic first though, so you can remember how the belt was routed. (Or draw a diagram.) Then slip the new belt into place, when you get to the last pulley, slacken the tensioner again and slip the belt onto all the pulleys. Done. BTW, when you have the belt off, you may want to check the condition of the tensioner and idler pulleys, if there bad replace them.

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