While waiting for my Idlers to be shipped to me I put the tension idler back on. I can t move it by hand. Should I not feel a spring load???
There is no movement.

Put a 15mm socket on there with a small wrench, and make as though to tighten it. It should move. Without a wrench? Depends on how strong you are, I suppose.

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George Reiswig
2005 Jeep Liberty CRD
Suncoast, SEGR, lift, InMotion tune, homebrew B100
At 138k, new head & gasket, timing belt, rockers and swearing vocabulary

I suppose u mean the bolt on the idler. Use the breaker bar leverage to pull it down with the socket on the bolt head.
Tks for the reply

The bolt head that actually attaches the bearing and pulley to the tensioner assembly. It shouldn't take a breaker bar...on mine, it is easy to get the tensioner in place with a 10" socket wrench.

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George Reiswig
2005 Jeep Liberty CRD
Suncoast, SEGR, lift, InMotion tune, homebrew B100
At 138k, new head & gasket, timing belt, rockers and swearing vocabulary

That worked fine tks
However I called id parts and they don t carry that guide/pulley. It is a separate item, although it, is a right hand thread vice left hand as the idlers.
I m going to the dealer tomorrow pm, but Peter at id parts thinks I ll have to buy the whole tensioner. I m sure somebody on here has replaced that part...... Any advice?

I replaced just the pulley on that tensioner. Pulley would be the same item as the other idler pulleys. If the rest of the tensioner is okay, and you're feeling cheap, you should be able to do that. You have to remove the idler bolt and re-use the bolt from the old tensioner pulley.

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George Reiswig
2005 Jeep Liberty CRD
Suncoast, SEGR, lift, InMotion tune, homebrew B100
At 138k, new head & gasket, timing belt, rockers and swearing vocabulary

That makes sense. I ordered the part from id this pm. You are right the only way to make it work is to switch the pieces. Seems odd though that it is not an easily replaceable item
Again
Tks