The serpentine belt on the 2000 Ford Mustang with a V-6 engine is used to drive lots of the accessory units in your car. The belt doesn’t want substitute as usually as some of the parts in your Mustang, however it should finally put on down. If you examine the serpentine belt and uncover cracks or breaks, it is best to exchange it with a brand new belt.
2000 Ford Mustang V6 Serpentine Belt Installation Instructions
Open the hood of the Mustang and find the serpentine belt. The belt wraps round seven completely different pulleys, together with the crankshaft, water pump, air con condenser, alternator and the power steering pump. The 2 extra pulleys are the tensioner and the idler.
Be aware of how the belt is routed. The substitute belt should sit the identical method on all the pulleys. A belt diagram is positioned underneath the hood that will help you determine the routing. A hyperlink to the diagram can also be supplied within the Sources part. (Be aware that the right diagram for the Mustang V6 engine is the fifteenth image on the web page).
Place the 15-mm wrench on the bolt in the midst of the tensioner pulley and rotate the tensioner to the left to loosen the belt. Don’t launch the tensioner as it should snap again into place, inflicting injury to the pulley. Remove the belt from one of many pulleys and slowly transfer the tensioner again to its unique place. Take the belt off of the opposite pulleys and take away it from the engine compartment.
Wrap the alternative belt round the entire pulleys besides the tensioner. Use the belt diagram as a routing information. The belt sits in the midst of the pulley groove when accurately put in.
Transfer the tensioner to the left, slip the belt over the tensioner pulley and gently rotate it again into place. The belt will tighten over the entire pulleys when the tensioner is moved again in place. Examine all the pulleys to make sure the belt is correctly positioned.
[taken from ehow.com]
