How To Replace Engine Serpentine Belt Ford 1992-96 F150 F250 (2024)

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In this video, we're going to show you how to remove and reinstall a new serpentine belt on this 1996 Ford F-150. This truck has the 5-liter V8, so this procedure is basically the same as any '92 to '96 Ford F-150, F-250 or F-350 with the 5-liter as well as the 5.7-liter V8 or 5.8-liter V8.The only tool you will need is a 15mm socket with a ratchet or a large 15mm wrench will do as well.

This truck has the 5-liter V8 engine in it. Obviously, your serpentine belt's right here. The first thing you want to do though is you want to make sure that your belt diagram right here is in tact. That's going to be a big help when you're putting the belt back on. It actually kind of gives you a little diagram of how to do it. You'll need a 15mm socket on a ratchet. You take the socket and ratchet, put it right down here. Put it right down on here on your tensioner bolt. Then you pull this counterclockwise and you can see that the belt loosens up when I do that. So, I pull the wrench that way. Then, you just slip it right off of this tensioner or this idler pulley here and then slowly let your wrench back. You take it off. Then, just pull the belt off. Pull it right up. You have to reach down and pull it off the crank pulley and the belt come right up and out.

To put the belt back on, what you're going to do is take a loop and feed it down and get it on this crankshaft pulley first. Then, up around this air pump and you're going to kind of flop it over down here to the power steering pump, up to the AC and across. We'll put it on the alternator and keep it off the idler pulley first. Okay, here's a new belt from 1A Auto. So, we'll put it down and reach down on the other side of the motor and pull a loop down onto the crankshaft pulley. Pull some of the slack out. Take a loop and go down to the power steering pulley way over here on the other side. Bring it up to the AC pulley. Bring this up and it comes down, it goes down around, and it comes right up from the crankshaft pulley to the air pulley. Then, it goes around the tensioner and around the alternator. This belt's a little bit tighter. So, what I'm going to do is put around the alternator first. Next thing you're going to do is put the socket, I've got the belt around the socket here. Take some tension off with this wrench. First, I'll get it right on the tensioner pulley. Okay, so now it's actually on the tensioner pulley. So, it's on everything correctly. It's on the AC, it's on the power steering, here on the water pump way down underneath the crank and everything. Now, I can pull the tensioner back and take it and push it underneath this idler pulley and let the tensioner off and it's all set.

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