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Hot Tip for Changing the Seroentine Belt on a BL 2.5L

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Old Sep 14, 2017 | 06:27 AM
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Hot Tip for Changing the Seroentine Belt on a BL 2.5L

Buy this Assenmacher Tool
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It's made for a Honda but it works with the BL 2.5 Mazda 4 and means it becomes a 10 minute job you can do from above the engine. No laying on the ground and no removing panels. I suspect the similar Schley tool
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would also work just as well .


It avoids the process described here:

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Old Sep 14, 2017 | 06:34 AM
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Oops typo in title "seroentine belt" should read ""serpentine belt". Mods please fix.
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Note the nut on the Mazda 6 2.5L tensioner is apprently 15mm so this tool only works on the 2.5 litre BL Mazda 3 .
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Picked up something similar here in the States. Worth the coin in saved labor, for sure.
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