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how do i loosen the alternator to get the belt off
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This answer is based on the R19 16v engine. The clio 16v and other engines may be generally similar but the diagram below will not relate.
Slacken the red nuts, helps to give the corresponding bolts a wiggle too.
(Top two on the little bracket are 13mm socket, lower two are 16mm or 17mm if they've been replaced)
Use the blue one to adjust belt tension (13mm socket, note locking nut), anticlockwise to loosen as you might expect. The whole alternator will pivot and loosen/tighten the belt.
To refit a belt, what I do is firstly poke it down the side of the engine. Then hook it over the crank pulley and power steering pump pulley, and reach over with the other hand and pull it up over the alternator pulley. then from above keep it in place with some tension and poke it down over the water pump pulley - the one without ribs.
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