Link to this belt: amzn.to/2Fl2DqF This was supposed to be a fun easy video on how to change a serpentine belt, but it turned out to be way more frustrating than it should have been.
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@MichaelBolgiano5 жыл бұрын
Just got done doing this. Never cursed so much in my life.
@GearheadDaily5 жыл бұрын
Right????
@napierdelticdiesel6 жыл бұрын
Just did this job on a 2012 Malibu. I remover the entire airbox assembly to give myself more leverage. I removed the passenger side front wheel, removed the plastic clips to the inner wheel shroud enough to pull it back and open up the area to the Harmonic Balancer. I then used a 3/8" ratchet on the tensioner along with a long box-end wrench on the ratchet handle to give me added leverage when slackening the tensioner. This is not an easy job, but very frustrating, but eventually with both arms deeply embedded into the engine side you'll get it done. I wish my serpentine belt remover had a ratchet feature, but it doesn't, so I had to improvise. Check the tensioner pulley too while your in there for any noises. Get some good work lights as things are dark in there.
@GearheadDaily6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the suggestions :)
@djenn4345 жыл бұрын
I did this from top with nothing other then removing air box. Took 15 minutes in the snow.
@Matthew-nq7du3 жыл бұрын
Agreed support the motor and remove the engine mount. Bunch more room and 30 mins if you are taking your time.
@WhosJay2 жыл бұрын
@@djenn434 savage XD
@Poop-nu1so7 жыл бұрын
thanks for telling us what car this is. because you told us what car this is, it really helps us know how to change a belt in this particular car. thanks again for telling us what car this was for, it was very helpful to know. p.s. I really appreciate knowing that this will help me fix cars like this, because you told me what kind of car this was for.
@GearheadDaily7 жыл бұрын
It's a 2011 Chevy Malibu.
@GearheadDaily7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the feedback, I changed the title.
@TheBlorchKnows6 жыл бұрын
Dude, thanks so much. I'm not a gear head at all and I was able to do this fairly easily thanks to this video. I would've been totally lost otherwise.
@GearheadDaily6 жыл бұрын
TheBlorchKnows glad it helped! Please sub if you can.
@billw.48424 жыл бұрын
Yes the headlight was a pain, But taking the serpintine belt off was easy. This video did help especially the advice to use the 3/8in ratchet. I hope to put the belt back on in a few days when I determine I can just replace the timing chain. If the chain jumped a tooth and bent a valve or something disintergrated and sent metal through out the motor I wont need to finish using this video. The removal does go a little easier if you remove the whole airbox, I bet it helps putting the new one on also.
@GearheadDaily4 жыл бұрын
Hey every little bit helps :)
@night2night35 жыл бұрын
If you think this is hard... try changing a headlight bulb!!
@GearheadDaily5 жыл бұрын
Right? Friggin bumper removal
@ivanvl11855 жыл бұрын
I just did that today! It's annoying
@shasan82725 жыл бұрын
Did that like two months ago. Working on a 2012 malibu you want to sell your 2012 Malibu.
@alfakrab61342 жыл бұрын
Selling the vehicle bc of this fuckery...
@reycampista4754 Жыл бұрын
Yup, worst vehicle configuration
@alanbrooks36703 жыл бұрын
Throughout this video all that was actually shown was the struggle and tuggle of how difficult it was to get ur belt back on never showing the real process of changing the belt the clips and clamps where the 3/8 ratchet goes not exactly helpful just seen how frustrated you were so I decided to not change it myself and have a friend who grumbled as much as you did, do it for me thanks again
@GearheadDaily3 жыл бұрын
YEP! I should have had someone else do it LOL
@gregrademacher29956 жыл бұрын
Here is an easy trick to move the tensioner. Make a loop of strong cord about 3 ft. in circumference. Loop the cord under the tensioner pulley so that you are rearward of the pulley. By putting a screwdriver through the loop to create a handle and using both hands you will be able to pull straight up to relieve the pressure of the tensioner. Put the belt on the drive pulley and compressor pulley and with a friend pulling up on the tensioner, put the belt over the alternator pulley. With this method you do not need to remove anything except the filter cover and engine intake beauty cover.
@GearheadDaily6 жыл бұрын
What if you don't have any friends?
@sevendyseven40906 жыл бұрын
Or on the side of the road by yourself..
@mcdonald20373 жыл бұрын
I totally agree i just finish doing mine... I did mine on a SAAB 9-3 ... I put the wrong tensioner in my case i got the one it worked but it went bad quick because i used an automatic didn't knew about but i learned it. I use a jack a wood stick and a 5/8 ratchet... .. they have to go inside sometimes some of the ribs might be on top and the pulley... Woah woah no need for black magic.. it took me two days cause i replace the pulley and i had to align it
@GearheadDaily3 жыл бұрын
They do seem to make it as difficult as possible sometimes.
@mpbrown185 жыл бұрын
My wife has a 2009 Malibu and twice I've driven it up on ramps and changed the belt from under the car. It involves you crawling below and going back up top a few times but seems much easier than taking the entire airbox apart. May have taken me 20 mins once on the ramps.
@GearheadDaily5 жыл бұрын
I wondered if that was an option. Thanks
@pjcb2 жыл бұрын
What was your process?
@mpbrown182 жыл бұрын
@@pjcb same as above but from the bottom. Airbox stays intact.
@mrl30443 жыл бұрын
Hard i had the old one out and new one in it took me about 30 minutes if you take the plastic cover off the engine and the air box out there's room for days
@GearheadDaily3 жыл бұрын
Aye
@momoelias87244 жыл бұрын
Why you didn't remove completely the air filter box?
@GearheadDaily4 жыл бұрын
It didnt appear at the time to give me an advantages
@nickroberts36593 жыл бұрын
Cuz some people shouldn’t work on cars lmao
@jimjam7422 жыл бұрын
damn, now i'm glad i threw one of those cheap ebay pod intakes on there, the job only took me like 3 minutes 🤣
@GearheadDaily2 жыл бұрын
Good for... you?
@alexsexoticpets74611 ай бұрын
Hows the cheap eBay intake working? I'm thinking of getting one for mine
@jimday97202 жыл бұрын
Need to change one on a 2014 but can't find videos for that year. Is it the same set up as 2012
@GearheadDaily2 жыл бұрын
I believe so.
@AngelMartinez-wf3iu2 жыл бұрын
This is easy. What about the hybrid ??
@mattm89314 жыл бұрын
Don't remove the airbox do the job from behind the passrnger front wheel. Its 1000 times easier.
@GearheadDaily4 жыл бұрын
I remember from this job that the front wheel didnt provide any extra room. The inner fender was solidly in the way
@freddyhaza13774 жыл бұрын
Hahaha bro it was one of the fastest if not the easiest serp belt i have done. Take off the wheel and the black plastic covers to get the band back in the right position.
@GearheadDaily4 жыл бұрын
Congrats.
@musketbal2 жыл бұрын
Keep the old one as a back up.
@doe43696 жыл бұрын
Need help on it in 317
@AFatherToTheFatherless Жыл бұрын
What engine is this smh
@GearheadDaily Жыл бұрын
Ecotech 2.2 I believe.
@TheFruitingChamber6 жыл бұрын
I need freaking help i dont find anything online i cant see where the 3/8th would go on the tensioner at all and i cant find anything that will work to compress spring :c shop wants 600 and i work on my own cars...
@GearheadDaily6 жыл бұрын
The 3/8 hole is there on the tensioner itself. Shine some light on it and you'll see it, its a little buried but its there.
@napierdelticdiesel6 жыл бұрын
The 3/8" hole is halfway between the pulley and the tensioner body.
@Lunarphantom994 жыл бұрын
Use Google look up your belt diagram, look for the alternator pully cuz you know where that's at, now trace it back to your pully, work your tool in that area until you latch in
@doe43696 жыл бұрын
Need this done to my 2010 Chevy Malibu and the pully is spinning
@GearheadDaily6 жыл бұрын
What do you mean its spinning? the pulley is supposed to spin on the belt.
@MegaHugro3 жыл бұрын
Yeh for sure Pain in the Ass, and the Serpentine Belt kits SUCK and won't work, and my 3/8" ratchet was too short. I had the wheel off so I stuck a 10" piece of pipe under the damn pulley and set my floor jack to push it up. Worked great. I am going to Harbor Freight tomorrow and return the Serpentine Kit and buy a 3/8" ratcheting breaker bar for future jobs since I have 2 cars with this confounding engineering marvel.
@GearheadDaily3 жыл бұрын
Have you changed a headlight yet? LOL it sucks equally.
@MalindoWe Жыл бұрын
Clear video recording helps better than talk
@GearheadDaily Жыл бұрын
True, it was hard to get images of the inside it was so tight.
@HandyTim2 жыл бұрын
If you remove the engine mount the job is much easier
@THEODINOFFICIAL2 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure it’s easier to go from the wheel well on this…….
@GearheadDaily2 жыл бұрын
It wasn't, i promise
@Lunarphantom994 жыл бұрын
Take out the whole airbox
@GearheadDaily4 жыл бұрын
It didn't look to me like that would make enough room.
@ronaldcaldwell57226 жыл бұрын
I'm going to tell you the truth I have never done one of these and I am not a mechanic I am an old school mechanic and chrislynn is that air conditioner guy one time I tried to replace this belt now we would have had put a clutch and all that on the air compressor and we start to put it back together that tools free hundred dollars and there's all kinds of homemade ones all over the internet I used a tool that I got from my great-great-grandfather a C-clamp 5 inch and it worked the first time what you got to do is though you got to put the belt on the top completely put your thigh 15-inch Ranch on the other tensioner class that stick that Big Spring all the way down with C-clamp put your 15 millimeter socket on the tensioner and somebody on the bottom you bring that tensioner all the way back and they slip it on with your hand you let it go and then you release the 5 inch C-clamp Ronald Caldwell
@GearheadDaily6 жыл бұрын
I don't think I would have ever thought about doing that.
@TheFruitingChamber6 жыл бұрын
Help me :c where does the 15 mm go i dont see a slot like all other tensioners ive seen
@Anonymous-it5jw5 жыл бұрын
If you had used punctuation a few times, it would have really helped me understand what you trying to say about using the old 5” C-Clamp trick.