The top idler pulley is an idler pulley, that other bottom idler pulley is your water pump. The easiest way to do the belt in my opinion is pull the fan and shroud, takes ten minutes and gives you a mile of room to work! It also gives you the chance to inspect all the pulleys for play a lot better.
I pull the fan (with clutch) and shroud together. It’s 4 13mm bolts, the fan nut, and clutch electrical connector. It really isn’t much more than 10 minutes. If the fan nut is stubborn lisle makes an impact tool attachment.
Thank you! I wish i had shown the fuse location on different trucks and would've had someone to hold the camera so i could have got closer to the plug. Thank you for your comment i hope video helps
Thanks for this video. I am just dreading this job due to the tight work spaces. In general, I have no problems wrenching, but the amount of tension and tight spaces has me in my thoughts. I took the air box off and was about to slip the belt off, then got cold feet before crossing the point of no return. Ugh. I think I’ll go ahead and try again tomorrow.
Thanks, this was very helpful. Got it done. One item for consideration for anyone performing this job: it may be easier to remove the belt tensioner pulley when installing the belt rather than deal with the tight clearances of slipping on the belt. I was replacing my belt tensioner anyway, so it just made sense to do this.
Good video. Just done that myself on my Duramax. Changed it and the thermostats and flushed with new coolant. Figured at 230k miles it would be good preventative maintenance to do at home rather than on the side of the road. Now Iv got a little play in bother lower ball joints. Have you had to change yours yet?
How did you get the tensioner to stay in the loose position? I did my water pump & just used a 1/2" long handle rachet but could not lock it in the loose belt position?
Gday mate this is the best video I’ve seen on 6.7 belt replacement. 2 weeks ago I shreddded the belt on my 2015 Laramie. We were 170k/m west of Alice Springs on the Tanami road. Bearing collapsed in top idler. Towed into Alice Springs. Ordered new idler and belt from rockauto.com $250 aud and 10 days. Rang Ram dealer in Darwin, $275 for idler only and 4-6 weeks ex USA. Looked at half a dozen other vids, this is the only one that properly describes how to feed the belt in. I don’t have the tensioner tool, got by with a 1/2” ratchet, extended it with a pair of vice grips and cable tied that to the fan shroud support bar, did the job!! Thanks again. Love rockauto.com, better price and service than from dealers here in Aus.
Thank you for your comment. I'm am so glad you got fixed up and the video helped. It blows my mind that my little video made it all the way to Australia... think I'm still trying to wrap my mind around that. Lol
Loosen tensioner, pop belt of alternator, take tensioner off and out pull out belt, route new belt put tensioner back on with belt around tensioner, loosen tensioner slide belt on idler pulley and belt is back on. Remove airbox for space
The video was nice but I could not hear you volume needs to be cranked way up I am a little death but not completely clear but I just barely could hear anything you said it helped me able to hear her video was good
The top idler pulley is an idler pulley, that other bottom idler pulley is your water pump.
The easiest way to do the belt in my opinion is pull the fan and shroud, takes ten minutes and gives you a mile of room to work! It also gives you the chance to inspect all the pulleys for play a lot better.
Yeah except you can't pull the 1-piece fan shroud without pulling your fan hub 👍🏼 btw that's not 10 minutes worth of work
I pull the fan (with clutch) and shroud together. It’s 4 13mm bolts, the fan nut, and clutch electrical connector. It really isn’t much more than 10 minutes. If the fan nut is stubborn lisle makes an impact tool attachment.
@@extremerc76 you have to pull the fan and shroud together lol you're not getting them out one by one.
Thanks for doing this twice! You added critical installation steps that the other videos don’t show.
Thank you! I wish i had shown the fuse location on different trucks and would've had someone to hold the camera so i could have got closer to the plug. Thank you for your comment i hope video helps
Thank you, back here again. :)
Thank you for doing it twice. I had to watch twice because the bugs in the background put me to sleep.
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It worked for my 16 3500 but it was more challenging than any combine belt I had mine on and off couple times but thanks for video
Thank you brother. I still had to work my tail off to get the belt over the pulley!
Thanks for the video. I like that flashlight! You do a good job breaking down a job so that I can follow.
Thank you!
Thanks for this video. I am just dreading this job due to the tight work spaces. In general, I have no problems wrenching, but the amount of tension and tight spaces has me in my thoughts. I took the air box off and was about to slip the belt off, then got cold feet before crossing the point of no return. Ugh. I think I’ll go ahead and try again tomorrow.
Good luck with it. Hope it all goes good
Thanks, this was very helpful. Got it done.
One item for consideration for anyone performing this job: it may be easier to remove the belt tensioner pulley when installing the belt rather than deal with the tight clearances of slipping on the belt. I was replacing my belt tensioner anyway, so it just made sense to do this.
I have the same truck as you but a white SLT, fully deleted with an S&B Intake. Thanks for the helpful video
Heck yea, thanks for watching and thank you for the comment!
dude thanks for take your time to helping us
Thank you for your comment. Glad it helped
Nice job Gentlemen, I learned a lot thank you,
Good video. Just done that myself on my Duramax. Changed it and the thermostats and flushed with new coolant. Figured at 230k miles it would be good preventative maintenance to do at home rather than on the side of the road. Now Iv got a little play in bother lower ball joints. Have you had to change yours yet?
Not ball joints, I've done belt but still haven't flushed coolant
How did you get the tensioner to stay in the loose position? I did my water pump & just used a 1/2" long handle rachet but could not lock it in the loose belt position?
I didn't, i had someone hold it while i put the belt on.
Gday mate this is the best video I’ve seen on 6.7 belt replacement. 2 weeks ago I shreddded the belt on my 2015 Laramie. We were 170k/m west of Alice Springs on the Tanami road. Bearing collapsed in top idler. Towed into Alice Springs. Ordered new idler and belt from rockauto.com $250 aud and 10 days. Rang Ram dealer in Darwin, $275 for idler only and 4-6 weeks ex USA. Looked at half a dozen other vids, this is the only one that properly describes how to feed the belt in. I don’t have the tensioner tool, got by with a 1/2” ratchet, extended it with a pair of vice grips and cable tied that to the fan shroud support bar, did the job!!
Thanks again. Love rockauto.com, better price and service than from dealers here in Aus.
Thank you for your comment. I'm am so glad you got fixed up and the video helped. It blows my mind that my little video made it all the way to Australia... think I'm still trying to wrap my mind around that. Lol
Thanks for this video as it was VERY helpful.
Great detailed video. Thank you for sharing!!
Thank you!
Can the belt be slide behind the fan without loosening / removing the fan?
We didn't loosen or remove the fan. To the best of my memory belt doesn't go between the fan and radiator at any point coming off or going on
Loosen tensioner, pop belt of alternator, take tensioner off and out pull out belt, route new belt put tensioner back on with belt around tensioner, loosen tensioner slide belt on idler pulley and belt is back on. Remove airbox for space
So u definitely didn’t have to go over the fan thru the shroud ?
Thank you
Very handy video. Helped a lot.
Did you have to take the fan out?
For install?
I didn't. Belt went underneath the fan
Thank you.
The video was nice but I could not hear you volume needs to be cranked way up I am a little death but not completely clear but I just barely could hear anything you said it helped me able to hear her video was good
I've got some new Microphones. Hopefully future videos audio will be better
Great video
Great video bud
Thank ya
That's the crank pulley not the AC compressor lol
U done lost me sure glad I don’t have a dodge
It wasn't that bad but trying to film it added a lot of confusion