Serpentine belt too short - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

cilahna1 · 08-28-2011, 08:16 PM

This is regarding replacement of the Serpentine belt on my camry 2.4LE. I purchased a belt from Oreilly Auto Parts. It is a 7 ribbed, 76 and 7/8 inch lenght belt with part # K070763. It seems to be about an 1/8 of an inch short. Was wondering if the factory belt was a bit longer. I snapped the tensioner assembly's 19mm bolt head off trying to release slack to put the new belt on and ended up replacing the tensioner assembly. Please help need info if there is a slighlty longer belt out there.

cilahna1 · 08-28-2011, 08:17 PM

Oh this is a 2005 model.

Glenn8963 · 08-29-2011, 04:48 AM

it may just be that the new belt wasn't into all the pulleys correctly. it only takes one rib on the belt to be over-lapping in the pulley. if you gave them the VIN number, and engine size, then it should match up. however, you can also go to a dealer and get one from them. but i suspect it was just mis-aligned during installing, which even a tech can do this too at times.