Ok i can't get the idler pully bolt to budge and it's starting to strip the head. and the top tensioner bolt i loosened in hopes of freeing the bottom one and that just made the problem worse. Help me please.

 

help with what? You need to loosen the bolt on the idler pulley before you can loosen the tension nut up top...

 

Cut the old belt off, walk the new belt on by turning the crank with a breaker bar.
I've replaced all my belts that way, never touched a bolt!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJzpTHIky18 thanks to Mr. pmorh for the video, hope this works

 

Yeah I figured that but stuff was over torqued now it's striped that's what i need help with.

 

spray it with pb blaster or liquid wrench, get a good, quality wrench, and try again. A crappy, chinese, soft metal wrench will ruin many many bolts and nuts...

 

Thanks for all the help guys but I'm in the mist of girding it off and replacing the entire assembly. sometimes you learn the hard way

 

goodness that sucks

 

WAIT... haha this same thing JUST happened to me on monday. there are three bolts that hold the idler pulley on. they're in between the pulley and the engine (two on the bottom one on the top). it takes a while to take them off with an open faced but its worth it because you can reuse the belt & idler pulley. once it's off you can use vice grips to take off the silly putty nut and replace it with a grade 8 from the hardware store.

 

hey man. where are you located? i could come by and help you if you need me too.

 

Gotta love the maxima forums! +1 on this and all the info and writeups.