AKbrener
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- 2005 Explorer Eddie Bauer
**FIXED** see my last post.
Not sure whats going on, but we bought our truck in september and the belt started squeaking about 2 weeks after we bought it. I went and replaced it with a new one and the squeaks went away up until about 2 weeks ago, lived with it until today when i had time to get to the store for a new belt, tensioner, and idler pulley.
tensioner was shot! sounded like the bearings were little rocks bouncing around. The idler pulley was fine, spun freely, but noticed that it wasnt completely smooth so was replaced. the old belt had a wear line on the smooth side and about 6" tear in one spot.
10 miles after putting all the new parts on: SQUEAK, Squeak!
it does not have any rythm, does not follow rpms, it just squeaks and chirps randomly... if you give it gas it will squeak but will not change speed or volume with RPM, just a constant chirp.
is this a belt issue still? everything looks like its tracking straight, might have a small wobble in the harmonic balancer,
the tensioner is straight, seems to really move alot though, like its always trying to keep things tight. Common for the 4.0?
input on this would be great, other common sources for the squeaks?
thanks
Not sure whats going on, but we bought our truck in september and the belt started squeaking about 2 weeks after we bought it. I went and replaced it with a new one and the squeaks went away up until about 2 weeks ago, lived with it until today when i had time to get to the store for a new belt, tensioner, and idler pulley.
tensioner was shot! sounded like the bearings were little rocks bouncing around. The idler pulley was fine, spun freely, but noticed that it wasnt completely smooth so was replaced. the old belt had a wear line on the smooth side and about 6" tear in one spot.
10 miles after putting all the new parts on: SQUEAK, Squeak!
it does not have any rythm, does not follow rpms, it just squeaks and chirps randomly... if you give it gas it will squeak but will not change speed or volume with RPM, just a constant chirp.
is this a belt issue still? everything looks like its tracking straight, might have a small wobble in the harmonic balancer,
the tensioner is straight, seems to really move alot though, like its always trying to keep things tight. Common for the 4.0?
input on this would be great, other common sources for the squeaks?
thanks