i need to change all three drive belts on my 97 4runner. i have a chiltons but it does not have any directions on changing them. i have changed belts before on other vehicles, older gm vehicles and it is a piece of cake. i do not see any tensioners for my 4runner. has anybody changed them? i cannot see paying the dealer $200 bucks to change 3 belts.

Each drive belt has it's own tensioner of some sort. I don't remember exactly how they all work but you have to remove the fan from the pulley and then you can slip in/off all of the belts. It's been a while since I've done mine so hopefully someone who has done this more recently will be able to chime in with where they are located...

.. For future reference, your thread title sucks. It doesn't draw anyone who might know the answer to the thread because no one has any idea what your looking for without clickin on it. I honestly thought it was gonna be a picture thread. Your title should be something like "changing drive belts?" and then someone who has changed their drive belts recently might click on that and help. Furthermore, someone who is using the search feature in months down the road to search for a thread on how to change drive belts probably wouldn't find this thread, even if it ends up containing a nice, helpful answer.

HAHAHA,

What crawled up your tailpipe and died? :twak:

Are you really that disappointed that you didn't get to see pics? Is it too much trouble to make one *CLICK* and go back to the previous page? Should he have used the search function, hell yes, but do you need to rake him over the coals for it?? Way to make a new guy feel welcome!

This is the cancer that KILLS T4R.org.

KILLS t4r.org? You have 27 posts. What have you been here for like a month? T4R.org is alive and kicking my friend. Your post just bashed mine yet contained no resemblence of an attempt to answer the OPs question. Way to clutter up a thread.

Anyways, I thought it was a decent answer. I tried to answer the post as best I could but other than that I just explained why a thread title like this one is not going to help him/her find an effective answer, and its not going to help anyone else down the road either. I don't really care if he/she uses the search function or not, but at least make your question known in the thread title. I wasn't disappointed in that I didn't get to see pictures. If I want to see a 4Runner that bad I will just go look at mine. My point was that the thread title pretty much left it open to imagination as to what it contained.