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Update: There is not enough clearance on my model Protege' to just put a shorter Power Steering belt on. You must take the clutch, pulley and the Coil completely off to get clearance. Much bigger job. I finally had it done and belt is on and running fine.

Update: There is not enough clearance on my model Protege' to just put a shorter Power Steering belt on. You must take the clutch, pulley and the Coil completely off to get clearance. Much bigger job. I finally had it done and belt is on and running fine.

Thank you for all your help my friend. I had my friend for the 3 hours that we tried and we just got very little swivel movement from the Power Steering Pump. We also did everything from the top of the car as he had no means to lift my car or put it up and work from underneath. But I see guys...

To be honest my friend did all the work. So I'm not sure we loosened "B" on diagram. That would explain why it did not move. I think we loosened it but it did not swivel much al all. We tried to use force and only moved like a quarter inch. After looking at the diagram I now see there is plenty...

My clearance looks nothing like yours. You have plenty of clearance. I do not. Open Attached Photo.

Your angle of your car photo shows an obvious clearance, mine does not however.

We had hardly any movement at all. Maybe a quarter inch movement tops. We kept on thinking it should move more but it never did. We loosened all 3 bolts on it also. Still not much movement.

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funny and strange story. When we spoke weeks ago you asked me to test for clearance with a flat stick. I did that and it looked like there was definitely clearance. Not a lot but still there Was clearance. Now when I checked today there was no clearance. We only loosened the Power Steering Pump...

I have a 2000 Mazda Protege DX 1.6 *vehicle. I am trying to bypass the AC without having to take out the AC compressor and by having the belt bypass the compressor. I thought there was enough clearance to just bypass the compressor without having to physically remove the compressor but I guess...

As I have a bad back and also don't know what I'm doing with cars. I found someone to do it for me. There is only one other issue. When the belt snapped, part of the belt melted on another pulley that that is to the left of the Serpentine Belt. Don't know what that Pulley and Belt are...

Yea I just found this. I think it will clear. Now all I need is to find someone to do it. The guys around here don't bother with that. Told me flat out. 3 different mechanics. They won't do it. I'll find a guy on Craigslist that comes to the house.

But this is a different diagram to a different car. I have a DX with a 1.6 Or is it the same on all of them? Sorry, I just don't know. ;-)

Good idea but I think it's bottom of the pulleys that I need to do this to. The top will definitely clear.

Does anyone know if my car has enough clearance in order to put on a shorter belt and by pass the AC compressor completely without having to remove it? Compressor locked up and I just want to get through the next 5 months without AC so I can save for a new Car. I have a 2000 Mazda Protege' DX...

Ok. So even with the fuses out and wire unplugged from compressor, it still locked up and burned my belt to smithereens. So my question now is does anyone know if there is enough clearance to put a shorter belt on and just bypass the compressor without having to remove the compressor? Mazda...