- 1). Lift the front of the car with a jack and position the Jetta onto safety stands.
- 2). Unfasten and remove the bolts which secure the wheel well splash shield in place with a wrench to gain access to the pulley from underneath the car.
- 3). Loosen the belt tensioner bolt from the center of the tensioner pulley with a socket wrench, then pull the belt away from the crankshaft pulley. The tensioner pulley is the engine's smallest pulley.
- 4). Remove the bolts from the face of the pulley with a hex wrench, sometimes referred to as an Allen wrench.
- 5). Slide the pulley off the crankshaft.
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