Minnesota Focus Owners Club

Well, ford sure got lazy and didn't put a diagram under my hood, I beive its all I need to get this car off the jack stands.

Anyone got a pic or something?

03 zetec...

I go finish my soldering now...

sc0tty8 wrote: Well, ford sure got lazy and didn't put a diagram under my hood, I beive its all I need to get this car off the jack stands.

Anyone got a pic or something?

03 zetec...

I go finish my soldering now...

check under the right front side/ the a/c shroud, if not just try it only goes on one way and the easist way to do it is take that motor mount out the way,, trust me ive dune thousands of those, i wished i lived closer id do it for ya it takes like 4 minuts.

That help sc0tty?

We'll find out in the AM lol...I am in for the night. No one likes a rush job

lol... yeah, i got my belt off when I changed the tensioner, and couldn't for the life of me figure out how to get it back on. Luckily, my 'rents got a Focus too, so I looked at theirs when they got home

focinite wrote:

sc0tty8 wrote: the easist way to do it is take that motor mount out the way,, trust me ive dune thousands of those

take the motor mount off?? WTF, i've done a serpentine belt with vortech routing in a subway parking lot. once you have it routed it take seconds to get it secured and no motormount removal.

focinite wrote: the easist way to do it is take that motor mount out the way,, trust me ive dune thousands of those, i wished i lived closer id do it for ya it takes like 4 minuts.

and this is why i never take my car to a ford tech.

trahma wrote: and this is why i never take my car to a ford tech.

I think you hit the head on the nail...

Anyways, after I got under the car and figured it out, it only took me I shit you not 23.5 secs to put the belt on and it runs, motor mount still in place....

i'm pretty sure I didn't take off the motor mount when I did mine either...

did mine last weekend with motor mount on, not a problem... tensioner uses like a 14mm or 15mm, pretty simple

15mm.

hay f-u, i got big hands!!!!!!.... ah ha ha .. no thats the way i was tuaght , so thats the way i do em, i havent done one in some time.. but i vaglly remember always takin that ...oohh wait ,ha ha ha , its the stupid cantours/cougrs, no fuck i dont know , now i feel all stupid im going down to look at the belt on my car......yeah i would put a jack wit some wood under the motor till it tuched , then zip zap the mount comes off , 4-5 seconds , belt off 2 seconds, belt on1 hour..jk ,zip zap mount back on lower jack pull car out, i never liked to work around shit, i always like to have room, now i know the 2.5s i will pull the mount, the 3.0 dohcs and escorts i leave the mount un touched. on the 5.4 and 4.6 i pull the clutch fan...yeah im a sissy that fan always cuts me, matter of fact i pull the fan on the 3.0 vulcans and 4.0s you know i realy hate doing serp belts, thats tire bitch work.."thats why i dont take my blahh blah" ....what ever!! im sur the ford techs will be glad to see you when you cant figure out why....(add your vehical concern)

the ford techs called me to tell them how to open my hood last time i called them. why would you think i'd call them with a real problem?

Ford techs worked on my old tbird 2 times when I had a problem with a front end noise and alignment, first time 700$ to replace upper control arms and fix some bushings, alignement. Second time, alignement, brother owns the car, 3rd time, I went in there and handed thier asses to them, they wanted to charge him for alingment and shop time.

The best part was the in milaget he 3rd time they had the car, last time the car had 124k and change, this time, 103k and change, they didn't notice the cluster swap, but, noticed the 5 speed swap...

$1 million dollars, if I brought my car in for anything. They would spend 6+ hours trying to figure out how to open my hood, and diagnose that as my problem for anything.....