right on!!! Just don't be "that guy" on another forum that used a bottle jack and put it directly against the oil pan, and punched a hole thru the oil pan. A 2x4 or similar spreads the load rather than concentrating it in one small spot.

 

Whew, what a job. I put my jack under the engine and removed the bolts from the motor mount. Somehow, there wasn't enough room to get it out past the valve cover. I finally used a small C-clamp to pull two pieces together a bit, slid a screwdriver under each side of bottom bracket and one screwdriver on top between valve cover and 3 hole mount and wedged it out.
Everything else went as described in other post.
Thanks everyone for all the help.

 

All I had to do was cut the serpentine belt tool. It worked great.
Now I need to replace several of the plastic retainer push pin clips. I learned the hard way how not to remove them. Thanks and have a great day!

 

3 years almost to the minute!

 

this is why i never replace the serpentine myself. i have **** to do

 

so i battled with it today.. there is a place for a 3/8 breaker bar to go in but not enough room to get it in there so.... i brainstormed and ended up running a piece of nylon strap around the arm the tension pulley is on and tied a loop about the hieght of the front of the car so i could stick a piece of unistrut (any bar or pole will work) through the loop and pry up while i slipt it in place.. very easy i did it by my self in about 2 mins after i came up with the idea.

 

That worked out nicely for you! Awesome!

 

Yes its all about using the brain lol. I fought it with a prybar for a bit and said screw im going to sit down and think of a way lol..... it worked like a charm

 

Just replaced the serpentine belt in the driveway; used the "pry bar on a jack" technique to relieve the tension pulley. Not a fun job but its done.

 

I just finished replacing the belt and tensioner, prybar on the jack and rereleased the pressure on the belt, removed the belt , lowered the jack.
Removed the bolt through the fender 15 mm, used a magnet to retrieve the bolt, wiggled the tensioner our the bottom, forward and down , reverse to install tensioner and belt.
I should have done this awhile ago, the idler pulley spins but is loose, now I know I could have just replace the belt and the belt, but after 11 years of service, I chose to just replace the tensioner




Nice new smooth pulley, the old one has a wear pattern and a ridge on it.



Clean new tensioner, so the spring is at full strength.



The new pulley , spins freely.



The engine side of the new tensioner

Here’s the old part....




Eleven years old, dirt built up



Dirt caked in the pulley



The belt wore into the pulley