Changing Corolla serp belt

[Gilley]

My mom's 04 Corolla needs a new serpentine belt. Can anyone tell me or show me with a pic the location of the belt tensioner so I can remove the old belt and install a new one? Thanks.

[Gdup35sedan]

Gilley, Corolla's are probably the easiest cars to change belts on... ever! Especially the 98-02's... takes 5 minutes. The 03-07's are very similar, the tensioner has a place to put a 19mm wrench on it and you pull it back towards you and it lets the belt loose. Best thing to do would be to get a 19mm combination wrench and a piece of metal pipe that fits around it. Put the wrench on the nut of the tensioner, pull back and slide the belt off. Just reverse the procedure to put it back on! helpful tip: when you're putting the belt back on, route it pull it back as far as you can (you wont be able to get it around the alternator pulley without pulling back the tensioner. So pull the newly routed belt back as far as you can toward the alternator pulley, with the other hand, pull back the wrench attached to the tensioner and slide the belt on. If i had a corolla, i'd go take pics for you, but its pretty self explanatory.
-GP-