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Timing belt tensioner?

brokenarrow

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City, State
Manchester, NH
Year, Model & Trim Level
'01 XLT
Vehicle Specs: '01 Explorer XLT, V8 5.0L, Auto, 148,000k

Today i developed a noise under the hood between the passenger side rocker cover and the cam syncronizer. Can anyone tell me if the tensioner is history or the cam syncro is failing or some other thing? So far it has no impact on the engine except for the fact the check engine light came on this morning, waiting for the scan tool to check the error code. The engine has 148k on it....

Any help would be very appreciated, Thank you

I posted a video mostly for sound, sorry about the poor quality but you can hear the noise intermently..

 






Never mind, just found the problem.. The noise is coming from the bearings in the 3 month old alternator grrr.. Back to advanced auto it go's... thank god for the trusty pipe :)
 






WOW...do I feel fortunate!!
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