How to Replace Serpentine Belt 2000-06 Chevy Tahoe

You remove this cover, there's a bolt right here. Use an 8-millimeter socket, take that out, and slide the cover up, slide it forward. There's a bracket right here that holds the coolant hoses on, just use a trim tool and just separate that from that. This one's broken in this vehicle. Now we wanna remove the snorkel and use an 8-millimeter socket, loosen up the worm clamp, or you can use a straight blade screwdriver. So right here. Slide this off and slide it off the throttle body and pull it out of your way. And use a 15-millimeter wrench or you can use a belt tensioner tool and just put it on the belt tensioner, loosen this up. Slide the belt off of the idler pulley. Loosen up on the tensioner and slide the belt off the alternator, off the power steering pump pulley, off the water pump, and off the crank pulley.

All right, take the serpentine belt and slide it over the crank pulley first and go over the water pump. The backside of the belt needs to go over the water pump. And go down to the power steering pump and up over the alternator. And then over the tensioner right here and you hold off on putting it over the idler pulley till last. And now take your belt tensioner tool or a wrench and just take the tension off the tensioner. All right, now I'm gonna slide the belt close to the idler pulley and take the tension off the tensioner with your wrench or your belt tension tool. Just be careful. And take the wrench off and just double-check all the pulleys and it looks good. Now take the intake snorkel and line this up over the throttle body and that's good there. And then line it up on the mass airflow sensor, just like that. And tighten this up, tighten up that worm clamp and then same with this one. And take this bracket and then reposition that into that bracket. This one is broken. And slide this cover back on. Get this bolt started and tighten that up.