Chrysler Repair: Belt Routing Diagram, alternator pulley, crankshaft pulley


Question
1992 Chrysler LeBaron Convertible.  3L engine.
I need a routing diagram for the belt that runs the alternator and the power steering pump.

Answer
Hi Lynne,
I don't have a scanner, but here is a verbal description  of the routing from the '94 manual (I don't have the '92 manual and sometime in between '89 {which is the other manual that I have} there was the addition of an idler pulley, and the tensioner changed in that in the '89 manual it says to release the tension on the belt you had to rotate it counterclockwise with a 1/2" breaker bar inserted into a hole in the tensioner arm while in '94 there was a bolt head to grasp onto and you rotated it clockwise to relieve the tension (you will have to look to see whether your '92 has an idler pulley and whether the tensioner arm had a 1/2" square hole or a nut to grap on to) :
Starting at the alternator pulley and going clockwise around it the path of the belt is that the belt drops down and forward and goes under the idler pulley (I am not sure that there is an idler pulley in your '92, there is in the '94), continues forward and less steeply downward and goes around the crankshaft pulley clockwise, rises rearward going over the top or the tensioner pulley counterclockwise, then drops down and around the power steering pump clockwise and rises to go around the alternator pulley clockise, which is where I started the description. To loosen the tension to remove the belt, or to give you room to install the belt without having to force it over a pulley while under tension you rotate the tensioner pulley arm around its pivot clockwise according to the '94 shop manual. It doesn't show exactly how to effect this rotation, but in the earlier manual I have ('89) it shows there to be a 1/2" square hole in the tensioner arm into which you insert a breaker bar with a 1/2" head which gives you the temporary lever to rotate the tensioner against its spring action. I assume there is a nut or some other surface to grasp if there is not square hole. Interestingly, between '89 and '94 the idler pulley was added, and the required rotation of the tension arm changed from counterclockwise to clockwise to relieve the tension. I hope this is helpful, a picture is worth 170 words! but unfortunately I don't have a scanner.
Let me know if this isn't clear enough.
Roland