OK I dont know what Im doing wrong. At first to loosen the bolts the stock pulley kept turning. Is that bad?

I finally got them loosened with a breaker bar.

Now Im stuck. The instructions says to "Next you want to take the 1/2" drive and pull it towards the front of the car.." Now does that mean to turn the 1/2" drive counter clock wise or to actually get in front of the bumper and pull it towards me? Ive done both and it aint movin. Also where is the tensioner?! Ive been searching and searching but damn I cant figure it out!

 

I had trouble with that part too because I didn't have the right part to do it. You can do it right where the pulley is, on the passenger side front tire area. While looking at the whole the 1/2" drive goes in stick in the wrench or whatever you have. Then you turn it counter-clockwise, which would be toward the front of the car. Once you have it far enough you just stick in the allen wrench to keep the tensioner in place so you can put on the new belt.

Hope that helps.

 

Fark, I think I messed it up. I thought the little hole on the pulley was where you put the allen wrench. Well I loosened the stock pulley and it came off and the tensioner (now that I know where it is) went forward (from my left to my right if I was looking at it) so now how do I get it back?!

 

In other words, how do I get it back to this position? Mine is in the opposite position with the pulley and belt off.

 

Ok, I got it. I ended up taking out the bolts to the tensioner, putting the belt on then pushing forward as hard I could to get the bolts back in. Now my concern is if I f-ed up the timing by rotating the stock pulley one revolution when it was on or am I safe?

 

If you rotated the crank pulley backwards then you need to check your timing.

In the future, have a friend jump in the car, put it in first, and stand on the brakes. That'll keep the engine from spinning and make it easier to loosen the pulley. As for the tensioner, you just shove a breaker bar into the square hole and use the leverage to rotate the tensioner upwards.

 

the same thing happened to me....my tensioner would not move and in the process of trying to move it i managed to pull the whole thing off....haha then i put the new pully on and replaced the center bolt of the tensioner....then i had a buddy pull the tensioner forward as hard as he could so i could put the bottom right bolt back in hahahaha my tensioner did not have a square hole like yours. huge pain in the a$$. at any rate i got mine on and as far as timing is concerned...my ride is running nicely.