{"id":30351,"date":"2015-12-06T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T22:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=30351"},"modified":"2015-12-08T10:50:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T15:50:41","slug":"2008-saturn-aura-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2015\/12\/2008-saturn-aura-2","title":{"rendered":"2008 Saturn Aura Serpentine Belt Removal Help Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/saturn-aura-2008-2.4l.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30356\" src=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/saturn-aura-2008-2.4l-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"saturn aura 2008 2.4l\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/saturn-aura-2008-2.4l-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/saturn-aura-2008-2.4l.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/my-belt.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30355\" src=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/my-belt.png\" alt=\"my belt\" width=\"236\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a>Need to change the serpentine belt on my 2.4l Saturn aura 2008, rented the tool for the tensioner &#8230; Don&#8217;t see any way to loosen the tensioner.. I tried the bolt on the tensioner but it only loosens or tightens the tensioner.. there is a square on that tensioner for a tool to fit but wouldn&#8217;t that have been included in the Auto Zone tool rental kit? the tool they give looks the right size but wont fit in the little square.<\/p>\n<p>I read that the 3\/8 square on the tensioner is where I loosen it from, I tried accessing it from both the top and underside of the car, yet the 3\/8 tool I rented wont go into the supposed 3\/8 square on the tensioner.\u00a0 Looking up the tensioner on ebay for the specific 2.4l one, it shows one but it doesn&#8217;t look at all like mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need to change the serpentine belt on my 2.4l Saturn aura 2008, rented the tool for the tensioner &#8230; Don&#8217;t see any way to loosen the tensioner.. I tried the bolt on the tensioner but it only loosens or tightens the tensioner.. there is a square on that tensioner for a tool to fit but&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2015\/12\/2008-saturn-aura-2\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2008 Saturn Aura Serpentine Belt Removal Help Needed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12408,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10435],"class_list":["post-30351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-repair-questions","tag-2008-saturn-aura-belt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}