need some help the washing machine has broken down is here a way to change the belt?How do you change a belt on a washing machine..?With out knowing your brand and model number it is hard to say how to help you. But for the basic washer the belt goes around 4 pulleys one being the motor and then to the water pump then to the washing machine barrel. The 4th pulley is a belt adjuster meaning the pulley ride against the belt making tight. The older models you would have to loosen a bolt holding the pulley and then loosen a rod that moves the pulley.
Most likely it is a pulley with a big bolt on the top that will not loosen instead it moves the pulley instead of coming lose. This pulley is supposed to do this as it an automatic belt tightener. So you put on the new belt and then with a long socket wrench you pull back on the auto tightener and slip the belt inside there and then let the lose on the socket wrench and the belt should be nice and snug and ready to go.
Any way this is the best photo I can find one how the belt go back on but you can see it goes on the outside of the all of the pulleys except for the auto tightener, it goes on the outside of the belt which is not pictured here . http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http
