Timing Chain Noise Update

[MrEvilPirate]

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.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Thanks for the update.

Sorry, can't help on the leak...but free bump.

 

[RonD]

I don't think rear passenger side tensioner has a seal.

May want to pull it and clean engine surface and tensioner head surface, may be some debris fell on tensioner when you were installing it