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- Vehicle Year
- 2002
- Make / Model
- Ford
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So I got the sheared off water pump housing bolt out. Removed the idler pulley and hit it with PB blaster and a hammer every night for a few days. Said a prayer to the car gods and clamped on the vice grips, got it out.
Put everything back together, new tensioners in, fired it up. No more rattle. Rev'd to 2500-3000 no more noise. Very happy.
One issue... The rear passenger side tensioner is leaking oil. I tightened it up, removed and replaced, nothing is stopping the leak. It was not cross threaded at all. Torqued up to 65 lbs, still leaks. There was only a washer at the tensioner by the water pump housing. You tube videos indicate that there is no washer at the rear passenger tensioner. I ordered one from Ford and am going to install it to try to stop the leak. Any opinions on this option? Anyone else had a leaky tensioner here before?
Side Note - Part numbers on the tensioners I removed matched the new ones. Someone had done this procedure before... Hopeful to take this truck to 200k... at 152 now.
Put everything back together, new tensioners in, fired it up. No more rattle. Rev'd to 2500-3000 no more noise. Very happy.
One issue... The rear passenger side tensioner is leaking oil. I tightened it up, removed and replaced, nothing is stopping the leak. It was not cross threaded at all. Torqued up to 65 lbs, still leaks. There was only a washer at the tensioner by the water pump housing. You tube videos indicate that there is no washer at the rear passenger tensioner. I ordered one from Ford and am going to install it to try to stop the leak. Any opinions on this option? Anyone else had a leaky tensioner here before?
Side Note - Part numbers on the tensioners I removed matched the new ones. Someone had done this procedure before... Hopeful to take this truck to 200k... at 152 now.
