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Old May 15, 2026 | 08:42 PM
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I have everything to replace the serpentine belt and all the related bits on my 2012 S, looked at a Pelican article on the process, seems pretty straight forward. Anyone have any additional advice for the job? Seems like you just need to make room and dig in...
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Does Pelican say to remove the cooling fan assembly? If not, I probably would. Easy enough and will give you plenty of room to work. You'll want/need a vacuum fill tool for refilling the coolant. The cheap $25 Amazon ones work fine. Tensioner is a 30mm socket on a breaker bar. Pay attention to how the little bracket on the lower tensioner bolt is oriented. I recently did the timing chain on my turbo and that bracket had me stumped for a bit.
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Does Pelican say to remove the cooling fan assembly? If not, I probably would. Easy enough and will give you plenty of room to work. You'll want/need a vacuum fill tool for refilling the coolant. The cheap $25 Amazon ones work fine. Tensioner is a 30mm socket on a breaker bar. Pay attention to how the little bracket on the lower tensioner bolt is oriented. I recently did the timing chain on my turbo and that bracket had me stumped for a bit.
They say to remove the radiator shroud, no need to get into the cooling, but I think it's a bit more complex with the turbo. Because, yeah.

Thanks for the info.
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On an S it's super easy - just undo the tensioner and off the belt goes.
On a turbo v8, it's far more involved:
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Thanks for the vid. I am going to replace the tensioners and pulleys as well, one is starting to make a bit of noise, seems pretty simple to do.
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s super easy ??? there is no room down there .,! I have a belt but no way after I looked at it.. wha
t needs to come off ?
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Originally Posted by theiceman
s super easy ??? there is no room down there .,! I have a belt but no way after I looked at it.. wha
t needs to come off ?
I got busy with another car, didnt get into this over the weekend, but if you remove the fan shroud you should have enough room to get it done. In these pics they show the coolant hoses removed, but just for clearer pics, you dont need to remove them on the S.

https://www.pelicanparts.com/techart...eplacement.htm
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Originally Posted by theiceman
s super easy ??? there is no room down there .,! I have a belt but no way after I looked at it.. wha
t needs to come off ?
4.5 minutes to remove, 5 minutes to reinstall!!! 😎

This demo video might help:

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Maybe 5 to install the second time hehe. Funny how that works.
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Maybe 5 to install the second time hehe. Funny how that works.
it's a real nuisance with the turbo. You have to pull a load of hoses off and empty the coolant. Took me ages, and really hard to get the air out of the system afterwards.
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Thanks guys . i do a lot of wrenching , even bought the belt, but maybe gave up to quick on this one . i just peered down there and thought nope lol...
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