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HELP !!!! Serpentine belt stress test (To my Sanity!)
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<blockquote data-quote="Mattee" data-source="post: 1051703" data-attributes="member: 74758"><p>Hi Gang , please do not laugh too loud about my following easy to fix problem. I am TOTALLY stressing out over a simple replace serpentine belt problem…. If I had any hair left I would have pulled it out by now !! I’m hoping one of you has some words of wisdom to keep me from taking a long walk off of a short pier… And I actually have one near by!</p><p></p><p>2005 Ford Sport Trac 4x4, xlt, Automatic</p><p></p><p>Ok here is the game, had oil changed, within 10 minutes of leaving continuous squealing sound started to come from belt, never happened to me before? Belt looked good, so I figured it might be the idler arm pully might have gotten broken? So I ordered a new pully and serpentine belt since they wanted almost 400 dollars to replace it. Besides I am a half way decent mechanic. So replaced tensioner and belt…. Way to loose? The tensioner was bottomed out less then zero tension. All looked good, I looked at the bottom main engine pully a set of larger tracks closest to the motor and a smaller diameter option closer to the radiator. Visually the front set looks like it is the one to line up? Since that did not work I tried to put on the rear set…. It did tension, but looked weird! Turned engine over for 3 seconds… It jumped to the smaller pully where it probably should be? Here is what I did, visually matched old and new tensioner to verify same shape size and register pin location. Also stretched both old and new belts together to verify same length (Approximately 86.25 inches = 219 cm), New belt was a Motorcraft (JK6-873-EA 1x) for what that’s worth? My only uneducated guess is to buy a shorter belt? But how much shorter? Is 3 inches shorter a good guess? Again thanks for any help, I’m stressing to a point of not functioning in daily life from such a “simple” problem!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mattee, post: 1051703, member: 74758"] Hi Gang , please do not laugh too loud about my following easy to fix problem. I am TOTALLY stressing out over a simple replace serpentine belt problem…. If I had any hair left I would have pulled it out by now !! I’m hoping one of you has some words of wisdom to keep me from taking a long walk off of a short pier… And I actually have one near by! 2005 Ford Sport Trac 4x4, xlt, Automatic Ok here is the game, had oil changed, within 10 minutes of leaving continuous squealing sound started to come from belt, never happened to me before? Belt looked good, so I figured it might be the idler arm pully might have gotten broken? So I ordered a new pully and serpentine belt since they wanted almost 400 dollars to replace it. Besides I am a half way decent mechanic. So replaced tensioner and belt…. Way to loose? The tensioner was bottomed out less then zero tension. All looked good, I looked at the bottom main engine pully a set of larger tracks closest to the motor and a smaller diameter option closer to the radiator. Visually the front set looks like it is the one to line up? Since that did not work I tried to put on the rear set…. It did tension, but looked weird! Turned engine over for 3 seconds… It jumped to the smaller pully where it probably should be? Here is what I did, visually matched old and new tensioner to verify same shape size and register pin location. Also stretched both old and new belts together to verify same length (Approximately 86.25 inches = 219 cm), New belt was a Motorcraft (JK6-873-EA 1x) for what that’s worth? My only uneducated guess is to buy a shorter belt? But how much shorter? Is 3 inches shorter a good guess? Again thanks for any help, I’m stressing to a point of not functioning in daily life from such a “simple” problem! [/QUOTE]
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