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[frobozz]

OK, I did all my research, I know all the tricks for dealing with the tensioners, I have my new serpentine belts in hand (dual alts), it's time to get rid of these lousy squeaky belts from my early-early 2003.25 6.0L truck, and replace them with the updated ones.

So I got the smaller one free of its pulleys, fed it blade by blade past the fan and.... now it's hung on the wires going down to the fan! Argh! How come nobody mentions that part in all these threads on serpentine belts? It doesn't look like the wires just unplug from the fan, but do they? How? I can't get the connector clip loose from the shroud because the wire gets taut, but even then that probably wouldn't be enough room to feed the belt past it. Obviously if the shroud were off I could do it, but that's what all these old threads are about, getting the belts out without hacking the shroud apart.

I realize most people only have the single belt, but it sure looks like that one is around the fan hub too, and would have the same problem coming out? Or is it not and that's why nobody's brought this up before?

Or am I just being really stupid and overlooking something obvious?

Duncan