![]() ![]() Then, you just have to locate the tensioner pulley and piston (yes, mine is a piston, but it seems the replacements at Autoparts are now using a coil spring?). You'll gain much more room to access the side of the engine and pulleys). Just lift the car on the passenger side with a jack (and secure onto candles/axle stands), remove the tire, remove the 2 hex-screws plus the plastic retainer (mine shattered to pieces.) that holds the plastic cover behind the wheel hub and then the plastic cover will be free to be lowered so you can access the motor from the side! (A previous post mentioned to put the car on ramps but it is way easier to lift from one side and remove the tire. I've read many texts and watched a lot of videos about older Vibes and Matrix, but never a video exactly like my car version.įor those still wondering (and just like the last post before mine), the trick is to access the pulleys from the passenger side wheel. Just like the OP, I couldn't find much info about releasing the tension on the belt, as much as replacing the alternator. I just changed my alternator on my PONTIAC VIBE 2009 2.4L. The same thing you would do if you replaced the tensioner. Install the tensioner, belt, and then remove the retaining pin. At that point it may be easier to just remove the tensioner, and get the pin and pin bar in place like a new tensioner looks. The pin bar will have to be re-threaded through the bracket face. If the lock pin bar is stuck behind the tensioner bracket, you may not get enough movement from the bracket to remove the belt. Good luck and here is the link to the tensioner: I am not sure on that but I do know that going in from the top does not look good. I think you need to remove the lower plastic engine cover from under the car and go in from the bottom. The tensioner is located between the water pump and the crankshaft pulleys. After the belt is on remove the lock pin and let the tensioner pulley release against the new belt. If you can pull the pulley back and put a pin or steel rod in the lock to hold the spring and pulley back then you should be able to change the belt out. See the lock pin in the tensioner picture of the new part. I have not changed my belt but by the looks of the tensioner, I would not let the tensioner wrench loose without having a belt for it to ride against. That is where you would put a wrench on to get leverage to pull the tensioner pulley away from the belt so you can remove the belt. On the part you will see a cast in hex that looks like a bolt head. ![]() That will give you a good look at the part. Click the link below and then click on any or all the blue "info" buttons for the part. Go here and get a look at the part you need to move to get the tension off the belt. Read that some have used C-clamps to compress the tensioner but can't visulaize how that was done.Īny help and insight would be appreciated Tried to remove the stabilizer/mount on the top right of the engine to allow more access but it didn't want to budge. When I did have the wrench on the nut the handle would not allow the belt to come off the pulley and there is also not enough room (or angle) to arc the wrench so that the tensioner will let the belt have enough play to be removed. Once I have the belt 1/2 off the alternator pulley it sticks out enough to make it impossible to reach the tension bolt with the wrench. I could cut the belt and be done with it but if I can't get enough slack to remove the belt now how can I expect to be able to install a new/stiffer belt over the same pulleys? I have been able to release some of the tension on the belt by using the tensioner bolt but there was still too much force on the belt to get it off of the pulley completely. Just about every problem that could exist, does, exist while trying to change this alternator.Įvery post or video I have seen turns out to be the 1.8 engine and not the specific 2009-2010 model 2.4 that I need to see. I have searched Gen vibe and Google for days and nobody seems to have pics or clear description of how to remove the Serpentine belt. ![]()
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