Car people!!!! Need a lil help....

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I only applied the soap to check the belt and not just to rid the noise. I'm not a mechanic but I'm pretty sure this is just a belt problem. I've put 8k miles on the car since buying it 3 years ago. I think its from lack of driving it. Car has 46k miles on it and isn't driven hard.

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AQUAMONSTER said:
I only applied the soap to check the belt and not just to rid the noise. I'm not a mechanic but I'm pretty sure this is just a belt problem. I've put 8k miles on the car since buying it 3 years ago. I think its from lack of driving it. Car has 46k miles on it and isn't driven hard.

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I understand that's what your doing. But as I'm explaining its not accurate on serpentine belts to do so. I'd be willing to bet you could pick a stock replacement tensioner and belt for $60 to $80 bucks and have your bases covered. Your gonna have to remove the belt to do the tensioner. Save yourself some work and do both. Just a suggestion so you don't have to keep back and forth to the parts store and have to keep taking a belt on and off. Choice is always yours. Just lending my 28 years in auto repair experience.

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Aquaticfan said:
I understand that's what your doing. But as I'm explaining its not accurate on serpentine belts to do so. I'd be willing to bet you could pick a stock replacement tensioner and belt for $60 to $80 bucks and have your bases covered. Your gonna have to remove the belt to do the tensioner. Save yourself some work and do both. Just a suggestion so you don't have to keep back and forth to the parts store and have to keep taking a belt on and off. Choice is always yours. Just lending my 28 years in auto repair experience.

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I've priced eveything and it would be around $70 for both. I'm gonna take it all apart Monday and examine the tensioner before getting parts

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AQUAMONSTER said:
I've priced eveything and it would be around $70 for both. I'm gonna take it all apart Monday and examine the tensioner before getting parts

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Hello; I had a noisy belt original equipment serpentine belt on a ford pickup. I replaced it with a new belt and stuck the used belt in the vehicle as an emergency back up. This worked well and I never had to replace the belt again for the many years I kept the truck.
I also do this with radiator hoses. I replace the heater and radiator hoses after a few years and well before any likely hood of failure. The old hoses are then carried as a just in case of failure one the road.
 
Took the day off from work to get this figured out and the wife needs the other car

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Car is fixed, no more noise. Tensioner was fine aswell as all other pulleys. Original belt was the cause so I can now get the car ready for the summer.

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