Mother fu&^ing son of a bitch ass idler pulley!!!
 

How on God's green earth am I supposed to fit my hands up in that little tiny ass area, fit a wrench over the bolt, and remove my idler pulley!?!?!

I literally spent the last hour and a half trying to figure out a way to get my hand up there, I contorted my body in ways in which it was not meant to be, busted open almost all of my knuckles, and nearly lit my car on fire in pure rage. But nope...i just get my hand up there!

For real though, how does one remove this pulley? Im guessing a long ass combo wrench??

Don't you remove the tire and wheel well then you have the room?

remove wheel and plastic trim, if its lower down there.


damn, beat to the punch lol clicked reply then got distracted for 3 minutes and thats what happens :P

wheel and tire was taken off as was the shroud.....theres about 1.5" of room between the pulley and the frame or whatever piece of metal that is up there.

How about unbolt passenger motor mount and lower or raise the engine. Ofcourse support with a jack.

Will try that..thanks

Not necessary to rock engine.

A long open ended 14mm(IIRC) will do the job.

Yeah, Im gonna borrow a long wrench from one of my neighbors. Its a 10mm btw. The tensioner is 14mm

That's right.

I was thinking about the tensioner when I typed it as well :p

I need to replace one or the other..still haven't determined which one is vibrating..but on a cold start with 88DM all over..you fucking hear it.

there is a very nice how to on the all day forum, ...to include super cheep napa bearing replacement numbers

Remove the engine silly. Erryone knows that.

i thought the fix this month was just go and buy an EVO.

Mine blew up basically while I was driving, I heard something hit my CS skid plate, and I pulled over. It didn't look like anything was messed up at first i still had my serpentine belt intact. I drove like 100 feet, stopped looked again and the serpentine belt shredded itself right in front of me. I had a few friends bring me tools ETC and we got the new idler pulley installed on the side of the road. Sadly they had gotten the wrong sized belt and part stores were closed, we ended up flat towing it the a mile back to my house.