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Serpentine Belt Replacement 98 Bonneville

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Raymon

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Feb 10, 2004, 10:27:40 AM2/10/04
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I have a 98 Pontiac Bonneville with a 3800 engine and I need to replace the serpentine belt.

What is the best method of doing this? It looks like the belt goes around the engine mount. Is this correct?


How do I safely remove it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Raymon

shiden_Kai

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Feb 10, 2004, 7:51:40 PM2/10/04
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"Raymon" wrote> I have a 98 Pontiac Bonneville with a 3800 engine and I

You will loosen the two upper mount nut/bolts, one is behind the power
steering pump pulley, remove the two bolts that hold the ps pump to
the block thru the access holes in the pulley. Move the pump aside
just enough to get at the mount bolt/nut. Then go below, and remove
the nut on the lower mount leg, remove the stud (it has an inverted torx
head) and the spacer. Belt will now come out. You loosen the two
upper mount bolts/nuts in order to allow the weight of the engine
to spread the lower leg of the mount away from the block just
slightly so that you can easily remove and re-install the spacer.

Hope this helps.

Ian


Clem

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Feb 17, 2004, 11:56:29 PM2/17/04
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Holy shit! I'm never buying a '98 Bonneville!


Harry Face

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Feb 18, 2004, 1:20:25 AM2/18/04
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Clem.

Have no fear, that monut blocking the belt has been eliminated.

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Harryface
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1991 Pontiac Bonneville LE
3800 V6 ( C ), Black/Slate Grey
_~_~_~_~276,905 miles_~_~_ ~_~_



markwb

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Feb 18, 2004, 5:08:19 AM2/18/04
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Yo, what's wrong with a 98 Bonneville? That was a good year, no?
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markwb
2001 Bonneville SLE


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Bon·ne·ville

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Feb 18, 2004, 12:49:42 PM2/18/04
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Hell yeah its a good year. The belt isnt that hard to replace and how
often do you think it has to be done for that mater? Not often. You
would haft to have absolutely no mechanical skills what so ever to not
be able to change a belt on one of those.

1998 Bonneville SE

In article <nQGYb.37044$4f7....@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com>,
markwb...@snet.net says...

markwb

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Feb 18, 2004, 4:44:16 PM2/18/04
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Yeah, I had a 97 Bonneville SE. I changed the original serpentine belt up
around 100,000 miles & I still could have probably gotten more miles out of
it.

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markwb
2001 Bonneville SLE


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Harry Face

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Feb 18, 2004, 7:34:35 PM2/18/04
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you really don't want to know how many miles i had on my original belt,
which was being rotated every so often with my two spares in the
trunk.......all told I think it had close to 150,000 miles on it before
I threw it out last summer when I finally bought a new belt.

It had the usual amount ofcracks across the ribs.

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Harryface
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1991 Pontiac Bonneville LE
3800 V6 ( C ), Black/Slate Grey

_~_~_~_~276,925 miles_~_~_ ~_~_



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