How do you replace a serpentine belt on a Chrysler pacifica?

Answer 1

this is a 2006 Chrysler pacifca 3.5l sideways mounted engine.

well it can be tough and its much easier you can acess the bottom of the car. get a skinny serpintine tool that has the 1/4 inch adapter. put the tool into the square hole located on the bottom portion of the tensioner near the tensioner pully. pull towards front of the vehicle with one hand. hold. and pull belt off the altenator with the other hand. now i would recemmond then just takking off all the belts off the a/c, Power Steering, crank pully. then once you you get it all up and sorta out. you want to get it off the tensionor pully. thats tricky. you have to push it off the pully. (towards the driver side when your standing on the passenger side of the vehicle.) twist the belt so it can slip down between the tensionor pully and the timing chaiin cover. then down and out. the belt should be out. then make sure you have the correct belt by matching them up side by side end to end. (may need 2 people.) now to put it back on i started with the tensionor pully. rule of thumb is smooth side of belt goes to smooth pully and ribbed belt goes to ribbed pullys. the tensionor pully is a smooth pully. to get it back in its correct home you must fold the belt in half. smooth part to smooth part. (so the ribbed sides are on both sides. now you will notice a gap between the tensionor pully and where the tensionor actually bolts into the timing cover right above the tensionor pully. that hap your going to have to push the folded belt threw. stand on the passenger side of vehicle. put folded belt on top of the tennsionor pully to the right of the tensionor. now i used a medium sized ice pick long enough to reach behind the tensionor to pull the belt through that gap i was talking about. once you got it almost all the way around that pully it can usually be a breaze from there. the belt portion that comes off the bottom of the tensionor pully then goes towards the back of the car around the crank pully near the bottom of the car. look at a belt diagram and you should be set the rest of the pullys are easier by doing it by the bottom of the car.

good luck