Technical Auxillary belt tensioner

[Voko]

Hi all,

My auxillary belt tensioner pulley is a bit noisy, so I'm going to change...does anyone know if you have to change the whole tensioner with pulley, or you can just change the pulley on the end?

Mine a '99 without Aircon... looking at eper it seems to be listed as just one part....but that seems unnecessarily expensive if just the bearing has gone

Cheers

Mike

 

[jimboy]

Change the whole thing. Personally I'd change the belts, water pump the whole caboodle while you're at it.

 

[Voko]

Thanks, the cambelt and water pump were done recently, so I don't need to worry about those for a while....

 

[jimboy]

Ah, that's good.

 

[JMSG]

I advise every one to change the tensioner , there is the tendacy for the auxillary belt be pulled in to the timing belt case , wen it brakes !!
Besides the tensioner it's not so expensive .

 

[s130]

Concur.

Generally auxiliary belt tensioners are very reliable. But when the bearing becomes noisy then if the tesioner is a sprung loaded dynamic one (as in the case of the "B") then one is best off replacing the whole assembly. Will be a bolt off/on procedure without the hassle of bearing extraction/removal/replacement.