Partsman109
Legion of Doom
- Joined
- January 12, 2010
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- City, State
- Westerly, RI
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 2018 F150 SuperCrew 4x4
The tensioner pulley on my wife's 2002 4.6 started making noise the other day, and when I looked under the hood I could see it wobbling with the engine running.
I called a friend at NAPA and was happy to find out that the pulley can be serviced separately...part number 38006
Fast forward to I got it installed and everything put back together, start it up and it's rubbing the front timing cover(?) making a nasty racket. I mean rubbing good, pretty much gouging the cover. So I loosened the three bolts for the tensioner and inserted some spacers roughly 3/16ths thick between the back of the tensioner bolt holes and the mounting bosses.
It's perfect now, just seems odd that I would need to space the tensioner out...or maybe the NAPA pulley was made just a tad too wide.
I called a friend at NAPA and was happy to find out that the pulley can be serviced separately...part number 38006
Fast forward to I got it installed and everything put back together, start it up and it's rubbing the front timing cover(?) making a nasty racket. I mean rubbing good, pretty much gouging the cover. So I loosened the three bolts for the tensioner and inserted some spacers roughly 3/16ths thick between the back of the tensioner bolt holes and the mounting bosses.
It's perfect now, just seems odd that I would need to space the tensioner out...or maybe the NAPA pulley was made just a tad too wide.