So I was driving home 1 hr ago from work, and noticed my power steering was completely down. I had just topped it off with power steering fluid cause the day before I changed the hose from the reservoir. So the power steering was down, battery light came and stayed on, and car was over heating. I looked it up on google and they said its probably a belt. So I went to my car and wallah!! The belt was basically completly off..the HUGE belt that is right in the front behind the radiator.....anywayssss I just wanna know how I can put the belt back on...its still in tact.. I have to be at work tommorow at 6am...hopefully I can dix it tonight....thanx

 

Easiest way would be to look for a diagram in the service manual which you can find on here. Then adjust the alternator and have that pushed all the way into the engine. Put on the belt and then adjust the alternator back out until the belt is tight. It's harder than it sounds, I had to do it for a friend on his MR2, in the dark.

 

Also I'm not sure right now, but there might be a diagram somewhere under the hood with how the belt should be on.

 

This link to a thread should help out..

https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...mpartment.html

 

YOU DO NOT 'ADJUST' THE ALTERNATOR, IT HAS NO ADJUSTMENT.
You just relieve the tension on the tensioner pulley with a 17 mm socket and pull handle on the extruded boss on the tensioner assembly, put the belt on according to the diagram, then release the tension. ( this is for an N/A engine, I think the SRT6 is different )

The belt came off for a reason, this hardly EVER happens by itself.
It is usually due to fluid on the belt.
Clean up the belt and all the pulleys before reinstalling it.

see https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...mpartment.html

for the diagram

 

George hit the nail on the head, and it should only take a few minutes, tops. Just make sure you find out WHY it happened...

 

Check for oil leak at top of oil filter. If it is coming from there it is install incorrectly. The "O" rings were installed wrong probably. You can find a " Sticky" on the Forum front page.

 

I have got to quit trying to answer a question before I look at who posted it..!

 

I'm thinking you had oil from the power steering pump on the belt, why did you replace the hose though? Why would it jump off, slip yes but to come off.
You have to move the belt tensioner in toward the center of the car, a 17mm socket on a long extension should do it.

 

Might have set his Gumball down next to the pully/belt and forgot it too..

 

You have got to quit trying to answer a question before you have read it properly.

You are right it really would be harder than it sounds as I think he has a Crossfire not a MR2.

 

My bad.. for some silly reason I thought a belt diagram was what he needed.. since they don't pass them out at Gumball Rallies..

 

LOL
We never did hear what position he finished in, but I guess that if you do not show up at the start line you do not even have the chance of finishing last.

 

Just a helpful note :
Put the belt properly on all the pulleys except #4, then use the 17 mm socket/pull bar on the tensioner pulley ( #7 ) to allow you to lift the belt onto #4.

 

I completely forgot this was the gumball guy, but thought the name looked familiar...

How did you finish?

 

More importantly.. is the girlfriend now an ex.. and did her new bo join the forum?

https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...crossfire.html

 

Now THAT was an epic thread!

 

They don't make 'em like they used to do.

 

Thanks buddy.....

 

Nope I was never there. It must have been a vivid dream.