97 Bonneville is the best vehicle ever made. Feel free to ask me anything you can think of. (I hope it's an SSEi though). On the 97... you want to be aware of the aluminum elbow that is part of the alt bracket that I mentioned. You can break a timing cover doing this on it if you aren't careful. You won't like doing the belt the first time w/o the tips and tricks you'll ask me for directly. Don't listen to anyone unless they have done it....PA and Riviera are way worse.

You should be good on bleeding.

Belt routing trick. Route is how it seems logical w/o using the tensioner. Lift the belt up off the water pump and put it on the tensioner.