What tool (is there a specific name, where do you get one, what brand, etc.) do you use to change the serpentine belt? Thanks.!
93 Grand Caravan 3.0 V-6 Serpentine Belt--What tool to use ???
Aug 28, 2006
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I'm not familiar with the 93 caravan, but typically if it has a spring-loaded tension pulley, you just find the socket that fits the bolt on the front side of the pulley, and use a long-handled breaker bar with the socket to rotate the pulley enough to slip the belt on...
The tension arm on that engine has a square hole in it for a half inch socket wrench. I have never been able to fit a ratchet in that small space. I use a simple non-ratcheting bar with a piece of pipe stuck on the handle for more leverage.
Or that too... That makes it even easier. Sounds like the setup that my old Ford Escort had. I like that idea better than the bolt/nut deal anyway. I had a car once that used a nut welded to a tension arm... After years on tightening belts, the nut eventually broke off the arm... Not a good thing!
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