Wambliokiye
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Will this toss the timing off? The pulley exploded and now dhe run rough! Any thoughts? Anything I should do after I make the repairs?
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Thats just a serpentine belt fir your alt, water pump pwr steering. Will not affect timing at all. Timing chain is under a cover under water pump. Prob running rough bevause alt not turning and computer is confused as to what is going on and water pump not turning, prob a ***** to turn also. Dont run it too long or youll drain the battery and overheat the motor from no waterpump
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Wambliokiye
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Yeah I was going to replace belt and tensioner. If this one blew up should I just replace all the pulleys that are plastic? Any idea why it blew up?
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Wambliokiye
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Any reason it blew up? Should I replace all the pulleys?
Age, time, etc.... it happens, it may have just been on its way out and you never noticed....When the belt is off just spin every pulley by hand to make sure every spins free and makes no real noise. You wont be able to spin a few so after belt is on eyeball and listen to be sure it sounds right. Your prob good, it just may have been time for that one to go. Good luck
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Also manufacturing defects. They could of made a bad batch. Bearings go bad all the time. No need to replace them all unless they all making noise, but that’s very unlikely scenario.
easy fix, you just grab that with a 15mm socket (I believe that's the size), twist and get the belt off then just R&R, probably run $35-40 at the parts store
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Wambliokiye
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So im not sure if this is all a coincidence, but after the fix : only did the belt and pulley, I now have a check engine light on! Says oil is low and she is sluggish as hell. WTH?!?!?!
what is the code? if you don't have a scanner just about any autoparts store will scan it for free and many shops will as well no charge.
Yeah, gotta get the codes.... oil anything (pressure or level) would not have been affected... maybe the battery is run down and it’s causing electrical shit. Get the codes and report back... check your oil level tho, definitely
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Which side of the oil pan is the oil level sensor? Might be the sensor just went bad but it might be the exploding plastic pulley cut a wire from the sensor to the PCM. The sluggishness may be the PCM has gone into "limp home" mode with a bad sensor or without input.
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Or the belt is routed the wrong way
Interesting thought.
@Wambliokiye, I'm not sure if I'm seeing this correctly, but shouldn't the tensioner have a grooved pulley? It looks smooth in your first post.
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I can’t remember if the tensioner goes against the back side of the belt, I think it did on one of mine in the past, but I can’t remember which model/engine. Thus no grooves.
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Wambliokiye
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It was running on the bearing that the grooved pulley has inside of it. This is the new stuff.
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Wow! So I hope you got the picture! Lol sorry, dont know why it sent so many.
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Did you make certain that every pulley spun freely? Even the AC & its satellite tensioner?
What's the oil level on the dipstick? Wipe it off on a smooth cotton rag and see if anything glistens in the sunlight. You have something ugly going on over there.
Were you able to retrieve the codes assoc with the 'check engine' lamp?
If you ran the motor more than 5-min without the belt then you over-heated and all bets are off. If the engine oil is low or has coolant mixed with it then something cracked.
What's the oil level on the dipstick? Wipe it off on a smooth cotton rag and see if anything glistens in the sunlight. You have something ugly going on over there.
Were you able to retrieve the codes assoc with the 'check engine' lamp?
If you ran the motor more than 5-min without the belt then you over-heated and all bets are off. If the engine oil is low or has coolant mixed with it then something cracked.
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