Wednesday, November 24, 2010

How to get the serpentine belt on a 94 ford Taurus??????

i was changing the water pump on my wife's 1994 ford Taurus and i have everything put back together but the serpentine belt. and i can not for the life of me get it on. Please Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!How to get the serpentine belt on a 94 ford Taurus??????
lookunder the hood and everywhere else in the engine compartment for a diagram. It left the factory with one. There should be one spring loaded tension pully that you will need to take the tension off temporarily with a wrench as the last step in installin the belt. You may as well replace the belt while you have it off, and the auto parts store should also have a diagram for it. good luck.How to get the serpentine belt on a 94 ford Taurus??????
You need a special tool. They will have it at Auto Zone, etc. There is a tensioner which is getting in your way, you use the tool to pull it back and then the belt easily slips on

You can probably borrow the tool, to buy it is about $50, but you need it for every belt changeHow to get the serpentine belt on a 94 ford Taurus??????
well what you do need are sockets or hand tools, and you'll need to losen the parts that your belt goes to so that youll be able to fit it on there...How to get the serpentine belt on a 94 ford Taurus??????
There is a pulley that is used for tensioning the belt. I think is uses a 14mm Allen wrench. Install the belt over all the pullys except the tensioner, then use the wrench to pull the tensioner inwards toward the center of the motor and slip the belt over the pulley and release the tension on it and you're done.