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Tensioner and idler pulley R&R Posted by skibumm100 [Email] (#3255) [Profile/Gallery] (more from skibumm100) on Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:52:16 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
The tensioner pulley on the wife's CSE is making a whiring sound so I think the bearing is starting to go. I don't like to let stuff like that go too long or I might leave my wife sitting on the side of the road and she doesn't like that. While I'm doing the tensioner pulley I figured I'd do the idler and the belt since I'm in that deep and they're cheap-ish. The tensioner shock is not that old (neither are the pulleys or the belt) so I'll leave that alone. I ordered my pulleys from Eeuro so I should have them by the weekend. I know the tensioner pulley bolt is left hand thread. I don't have a "tool" to keep the tensioner compressed. Getting the belt off is easy. I was thinking of trying to break the pulley bolt loose by turning clockwise first with the belt still installed. Once(or "if") it breaks free, I was thinking I might be able to gently go CCW with it to get the belt loose and then try to hold the tensioner bracket with a big crescent wrench and loosen the bolt again without pulling the tensioner apart. The other option would be to break the bolt free and then cut the belt as I'll be changing it anyway. Does anyone have an alternate method of getting the tensioner pulley bolt loose without using the tensioner "tool". I just have too much stuff to get done to tinker around making a "tool".
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