ok so the bearing on my tensioner pulley went bad and i bought a new one to replace it but am having trouble seeing how to take it off...ive replaced a tensioner before on other cars but this time it is just the pulley-- just for clarifacation you all kno where you put the 1/2 inch ratched to loosen tension and take the belt off at...well that same pulley is the one i am replacing and im not sure how to get it off? anyone else ever replaced this before.?

 

OOOOkkk basically HAS anybody ever taken the tensioner off of their car? and how

 

guess not, I mostly just sell new tensioners, given all the problems wth them and the fact that it may be the tensioners fault the bearing went bad. does your car have the "improved" black steel tensioner on it or the "prone to bending" aluminum one on it?

 

i believe it is the aluminum one...your talking bout the part that actually does the "tensioning" or movement, because that part looks to be aluminum...looks to be the stock part. my car has whined for like quite a while and i just now got around to thinkin bout what it might be and seems liek its coming from the tensioner....but even still if i replace to whole tensioner i still dont see how exactly that comes off of the car...Randy can you check on a price for that possibly and get back to me on that

 

that is correct, the aluminum tensioners are prone to bowing or bending outwards and this causes the belt to ride off to the side, which can cause early belt or pulley faliure. Ford had a TSB back in 1998 to improve this and one thing was the new steel tensioners(and a belt guide and a flanged water pump and P/S pump pulley). we have plenty of the steel tensioner kits in stock, there pricey at @$135.00 and come wth a new belt. the belt guide is also in stock and @$10.00, it is recommended but not 100% required.

 

Ouch that is pricy ima go just replace the pulley and see what happens if i end up blowin this pulley out then im only out 17 bux n then i will order the whole tensioner if i dont then im not out 135 bux..

also randy- excellent color choice--mines the same yr an color--maybe we should trade one of these days ive only seen a handful our color

 

yeah the "Purple" ones are rare, I've only seen 3 or 4 others and they were V6 cars. trade, nah I don't think-so