belt not getting tight

[buzxj]

I loosened the top bolt on the ps pump, and the bolt that holds the long tensioning bolt in place. I turned tensioning bolt both ways and not much seemed to happen. What am I doing wrong? -Buz

[MogifiedXJ]

There's also a bolt on the back of the ps pump, are you sure you've loosend all of them?

[buzxj]

Is it near the bottomon the back, also which way am I supposed to be turning the tensioning bolt once it is all loose?

[RichP]

Is it near the bottomon the back, also which way am I supposed to be turning the tensioning bolt once it is all loose?

You want to be turning that bolt to drop the ilder pulley down which is loosening. To remove the belt you don't have to loosen the power steering pulley or any of that stuff, thats only if you are going to replace the water pump so you can get the brackets out of the way.
You did pull the electric fan right ? Then loosen the idler pulley bolt about 1 or 2 turns right ? From then on it's a matter of turning that horizontal bolt up on top, the one that you first said to yourself 'wonder what that does'..
Once you have it all apart pull that bolt up and put a dab or two of anti-seize on it.

[jneary]

loosen the bolt that holds the tensioning bolt and there is 2 bolts on the back side of the power steering bracket that need to be loosened also