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 Post subject: At what mileage did your idler pulley fail?
PostPosted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:59 pm 
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List the year of vehicle and mileage in which your idler pulley failed.

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08 42k miles :?
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73K 06 and it tossed the belt with it too

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Never,change both the belt and tensioner(with both pulley's) every 30k.
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You all know that 60k is the change interval right? Both the belt and tensioner.It's cheaper to replace both every 60k then what can happen if one fails.
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No, did not see that in the owners manual :lol: :lol:

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2003 changed both at 90k belt was fine, bearing had started chirping, replaced both belt and tensioner

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Mine started making noise at 140,000ish so I changed it along with my 4th belt

2003, 140,000

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What kind of cost can someone expect to pay to have these replaced? Is it hard to do yourself?

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 2:00 am 
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1 ratchet with a stumpy extention to loosen tension to remove belt, 1 13mm? socket for the bolt

it's only held on with one bolt

maybe 15 minutes

i think i paid 55 bucks for the entire assembly from autozone, dont really remember

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2003 - changed at 110,500 miles with little signs of wear and no noise or wobble in tensioner assembly. Better to be safe than sorry, right?

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2003, 78k...both pullys and belt 2 days later (gator back)

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tjkj2002 wrote:
You all know that 60k is the change interval right? Both the belt and tensioner.It's cheaper to replace both every 60k then what can happen if one fails.


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-although not quite as obsessive as TJ - but for the Diesel it's 37,500 for Schedule B - so new belt at 37,500 - new belt and tensioner at 75,000.

It's way cheaper changing stuff in your driveway - than trying to find parts on the side of a highway in West Texas......

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2003, about 49K on it when it started squealing so I replaced it.

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2003, replaced both idler and tensioner pulleys at 95K-ish with second belt. Pulleys weren't making noise but I figured since I had a new 30 mile commute (one way) that it would be safer to replace them.
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2004. About 115,000 I think.

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2005. Will probably be changed by the time I hit 70K as it is making a little noise on cold starts now at 69,200

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