Please HELP!!!!! problem. 4th belt since june.
#11
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Please check your tensioner alignment marks.
Here'* my UPPER tensioner (you don't have this one) to use for reference:
Note the scale on the black portion. This is shown UNDER tension. You want the arrow to line up with the vertical line just to the right (ideally). Shoot for the area between the two nearest lines (the smaller of the two 'scale sections). Think of the wider zone as 'bad', and the narrower zone as 'good'. If you are in the 'bad', replace the entire tensioner. As you can see, the part number is on it. Yours is different than the one pictured. Go by your number.
Here'* my UPPER tensioner (you don't have this one) to use for reference:
Note the scale on the black portion. This is shown UNDER tension. You want the arrow to line up with the vertical line just to the right (ideally). Shoot for the area between the two nearest lines (the smaller of the two 'scale sections). Think of the wider zone as 'bad', and the narrower zone as 'good'. If you are in the 'bad', replace the entire tensioner. As you can see, the part number is on it. Yours is different than the one pictured. Go by your number.
#12
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True Car Nut
OK, don't give up yet!
You mentioned above that your pulley seems to jump now and then at idle. That may mean that your tensioner spring is going bad. Here'* a fairly recent thread that talks about this:
Question on Belt Tensioners What is the correct setting
I may very well be that you have to replace your tensioner.
EDIT: It looks like Bill beat me to the punch, but the thread I linked is still good information for you.
You mentioned above that your pulley seems to jump now and then at idle. That may mean that your tensioner spring is going bad. Here'* a fairly recent thread that talks about this:
Question on Belt Tensioners What is the correct setting
I may very well be that you have to replace your tensioner.
EDIT: It looks like Bill beat me to the punch, but the thread I linked is still good information for you.
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