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How to Alter a Serpentine Belt on a Duramax

by Christian Killian

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The Duramax diesel fuel engine is a half dozen.vi-liter engine used in the Chevy trucks with a production run from 2001 and is currently nevertheless in use. The serpentine belt drive organisation on the front of the engine turns all the accessories on the engine and has a spring-loaded tensioner to go along the belt tight. The engine has a reputation for durability and reliability besides equally existence a stout workhorse. Whatever home mechanic can change the belt in about an hour and relieve himself a costly repair nib from a repair shop.

Step 1

Open the hood of your truck and locate the negative battery terminal on the bombardment. Remove the retaining commodities that secures the negative battery cable to the battery using a wrench, so remove the cable. Set information technology aside for now.

Step ii

Locate the tensioner on the front of the engine. It is on the passenger side forepart of the engine. There is a pigsty in the arm of the tensioner. This hole will accept a ½-inch drive breaker bar. There is a small blackness caster on the end of the arm, making information technology easier to identify.

Pace 3

Insert a ½-inch drive breaker bar in the hole on the tensioner and rotate the tensioner counterclockwise until the belt is loose. Remove the belt from the engine and discard information technology. Slowly rotate the tensioner back to the home position and allow information technology to sit down there while you install the new belt on all the pulleys except the tensioner pulley.

Pace 4

Rotate the tensioner counterclockwise, then install the belt onto the tensioner pulley. Slowly rotate the tensioner clockwise. Do non let it snap back or you volition damage the tensioner. Once the belt is tight, remove the billow bar from the tensioner and out of the engine compartment.

Install the negative battery cablevision on the negative terminal of the battery, install the retaining bolt and tighten it with a wrench. Close the hood and bulldoze every bit you ordinarily would, rechecking the chugalug in a few days.

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