How to Replace Serpentine Belt 1998-2004 Dodge Intrepid

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In this video we're going to show you how to remove and replace the belt that rides both the alternator and the power steering on this 2004 Dodge Intrepid with a 2.7L. Tools you'll need are a 15mm wrench as well as another wrench for leverage and a 13mm socket with a long extension. You can also put 2 extensions together and obviously a ratchet. It always helps to find your belt routing diagram and on this vehicle it's in front of the radiator kind of towards the drivers side. Just get an idea of what this shows you about how the belts are routed and it will help you a lot when you're putting the belts back on and when you're taking them off.

Okay to remove this front belt here there's basically 2 things. All right let's see if I can get a good shot of it. No. Okay right here is a 15mm bolt on that pulley. You need to loosen that and then way down in there, let's see, right here is a 13mm bolt that tensions or loosens the slack on the belt. Okay so down here you can see I have a 15mm wrench on that pulley nut. Okay and what you can do if you cant get enough leverage to move that wrench I take another wrench and I hook it on. That gives me more leverage and you just carefully pull and you'll eventually loosen nut. Eventually you'll get it so you can just use the 15mm wrench. Continuing to loosen up this 15mm. Loosen it up a good 2 or 3 turns here.

Okay and we'll just fast forward a little bit as I loosen up that nut more. Now I've got the correct tool which is a ratchet 13mm socket and I really long extension. You can put 2 or 3 extensions together but this just let's me go down get right on that bolt down there. Loosen it up and as you loosen you can pull on the belt a little bit and you'll feel that belt coming loose. Okay now with the belt nice and loose you pull it right off of your power steering belt and then you need to reach way down and pull it off your crank and you pull it right up and out. Okay so here I'm showing the belt routing diagram again. This alternator and power steering belt is the one that's kind of facing over towards the right that I'm pointing at. The next scene you're going to basically see me manipulate the belt to this diagram which basically I put it down around the crank first then I route it around the alternator and the power steering pulley's and then I pull it up over the tensioner pulley.

Okay so to put your new belt on what you're going to do it put it down in. You want to make sure it goes down around your crank pulley. You're alternator pulley is way down there, okay it wants to go around your alternator pulley and then around your power steering pulley first. Now pulling it up. I pulled it up around my tensioner. Okay and we'll fast forward again as we're just tightening up that tensioner bolt. Tighten it up so you can push it down just little more then a quarter of an inch. So actually what happens as you tighten up this 15mm bolt on the pulley it actually tightens the belt a little more. Okay so here you can kind of see, tighten it up there's still we can push it down a little bit, we'll tighten it up a little more than that. Okay now we'll tighten this nut on the pulley.

Okay now we'll fast forward through tightening that up. You want to get nice and tight. As tight as you can with that wrench. Okay and after you tighten that up what you want to do is start the car, run it a little bit, shut it off and check the tension on the belts again. Make sure they're still where you want them.

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