no it won't loosen up^^^^^^^^^^^^put the socket and breaker bar on and push it towards the passanger side

 

I'm gonna take pictures of this and post them here since there don't seem to be any clear instructions around on how to safely lift the tensioner... thanks for the advice guys; saving money on labor doing it this way

 

I'm not sure what's so hard to understand...I think you are overthinking this.


Get a breaker bar and a socket, put it on the tensioner pulley with the breaker bar going up towards the hood and push/pull back towards the passenger side of the car.

 

As an engineer I tend to overthink almost everything... That said, my degree is in electrical engineering, not mechanical engineering... it wasn't immediately apparent to me which direction i should attach the wrench in to apply torque effectively and safely.

My previous car was my first car, a 1992 Taurus GL which I have owned for 7 years. I never did any mechanical work on it myself... this car is a learning experience for me. I have a shop manual, but I think it's a crappy one because it doesn't go into any detail about these kinds of things.

I now have all the information I need to get this done... Thanks!!

 

get a Chilton manual, has pictures,

you will learn alot with a fox lol, but parts are cheap and anything is easy to work on

 

By reading some of your posts, I knew you were an engineer.


I don't know many people on this site that talk about the tensioner and use the phrase axis of rotation and applying torque to a certain point.

 

Haha, duly noted. All engineers have to take basic courses on newtonian (not to mention e&m, relativity & quantum) physics and static forces. I didn't do terribly well in statics, but I guess I did learn a few things after all...

 

where did you get your degree? sometimes I feel like the professors here are idiots

 

rutgers university in nj