Went to go replace serpentine belt on 2006 4Runner. However, the new belt was just too tight for me to finish the job. I probably could have completed it if I had more time, but I just put the old one back on for now.

Because of how hard it was to fit in there, I’m not too excited to complete the job. It’s a REALLY tight fit in there – there’s not much room to turn the tensioner + have to run the belt around the fan belt just to complete the job. It feels like I really need to remove every last bit of slack + stretch the belt too.

Anyway, how bad do you think the old belt is? Do I have more time on this? The entire belt looks consistent with both pics on both sides.

I’m not experiencing any issues or anything like that; just got an oil change recently and it was mentioned I might want to get that done soon.

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