Originally Posted by ROB311952

Well, no bang, but yesterday I got to the end of my street and the red battery light came on and I lost power steering. I turned around and went back to my garage figuring the serpentine belt broke. Belt was off (but fine) but the idler pulley was wobbly (bearing blown apart) and the bolt finger tight. I guess the counterclockwise rotation loosened the bolt when the bearing went.

The SRT-6 idler pulley is a 90 mm flat OD metal pulley with a 17 mm bore that runs against the top of the belt. After checking Autozone, Advance, and O'Reilly, the only thing coming up everywhere was a 65 mm plastic grooved pulley. That's apparently what the common normally aspirated Crossfire uses. I was telling a buddy about my dilemma, and he said he might have a pulley new in the box in his garage that might work. It's a Gates 38001. Using 1 very thin shim washer, it actually lined up better (perfectly) than the factory pulley did (which was off by about 1/16"). I'm not sure what this pulley is listed for but apparently it's a readily available pulley that solves the problem if yours should die like mine did. I had to make a quick trip to Harbor Freight Tools for a Torx socket set for $8 to adjust the tensioner to get the belt back on.

I got the belt diagram off the Forum here, along with the way to angle the tensioner pulley over (counterclockwise on the torx head bolt) to get the belt back on. Hint; you should remove the fan/shroud to make this easier, and not cut up your arms on the shroud. Only two clips on the top, connector on right end, and move the small hoses out of the way that run across it to the overflow tank. After struggling for quite a while trying to avoid dealing with the shroud, I took off the shroud and then had the belt on in two minutes.

Whenever I do have to change the belt, I will do it this same way right off the bat.