Belt Tensioner Pulley, Idler Pulley, Serpentine Belt | EASY HOW TO REPLACE | Mercury Ford Lincoln

[@trexracer55]

Thanks for the video I took it to a mechanic he wanted $85 to put on a belt tensioner the idle pulley and the serpentine belt as I'm disabled. Thsts a lot of money for me for I'm in a fixed-income so with your video I did it myself thank you so much you have no idea how much I appreciate your video

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

Hey thanks so much for your kind words! I really enjoy hearing testimonies like this one! You are very welcome, I am glad I can help! I am going to pin your comment to the top!

[@janedoe6071]

I NEED THAT PART THE PULLEY IS ON THE ARM I NEED THE ARM!!my car has been stuck for 6 months trying to get help I can’t find the part but it’s the part the pulley goes on ineed the entire part your holding

[@janedoe6071]

Me to! But my cats been sitting for 6 months tryn to find the part !!🙄 I’m glad you figured it out ! ❤️

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

@janedoe6071 thanks for stopping by, it’s the tensioner pulley, and you can buy just the pulley but because it’s so cheap and affordable I just went with the whole piece! Good luck, hope you get it fixed soon. Merry Christmas, God Bless!

[@jota7000]

Thats cheaper than all of those items cost, without the labor, in new jersey.

[@amywaterman-mcintyre]

People don't realize how complicated it can be to make a clean video that's easy to follow. I appreciate it so much. Some people will always have to critique. Shit if only I could always afford the OEM.... Anyways thanks for the vid.

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

Thanks for stopping by, I appreciate your feedback! I’m with you on the oem must or must not! Sometimes I just can’t afford the motorcraft but the car needs to run! Bless you!

[@michael-d1h9f]

Thanks i made the mistake of changing the pulley only, returned the belt tensioner to Advance auto. Now start the 2003 Lincoln Town Car and it squeals like a pig. So today I ordered a new tensioner from Auto Zone and will install in the AM and get going to Walt Disney World!!! Thanks for the wonderful video you are GREAT!!!

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

Thanks for stopping by! I appreciate your kind words. I am happy the video served you well! Good luck with the project and have fun at Disney! Something on our to do list with my family for this year!

[@michael-d1h9f]

Oh by the way I tried taking the belt off just around the Tensioner pulley, but the whole belt kept sagging and falling off, so your belt serpentine schematic. That you showed was a life saver, again thanks had a blast at the Magic Kingdom the weather was 80 degrees rode the train, people mover and did the carousel of progress, and Haunted mansion, oops Country Bear Jamboree, crowd was small and the wait times were good! Live in Poinciana Florida so we are lucky annual passes and 30 minutes away from home! Walt Disney World ROCKS!!! So does Florida, we love it!!!

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

@user-us9bj4rs2o thanks for the update! I’m glad you figured out the car! I appreciate the kind words. Can’t wait to see Disney world. I had spent 8 years living in Southern California for a part of my life and had the opportunity to visit Disneyland a few times. My senior trip for graduation was actually a trip to Disneyland where my friend Adam and I got arrested by the Disneyland police for messing around in a roller coaster and not following the rules which in turn got us kicked off the ride, lead into some back interrogation rooms, called our parents and had us sign paperwork that we would be on our best behavior or else….”Go class of ‘04 Ayala High School!”

[@skippythetubrat]

Thank you for this video. As I write this, I am 550 miles from home. Last Saturday I drove my 2003 Town Car to my father's place in Northern Arkansas. I live outside of Houston. Yesterday morning I was going on a run to the grocers. When I started my car it started squealing like hell. It had squawked a big over the last couple of weeks, but I hadn't gotten around to doing anything about it. Yesterday morning I regretted not having done so. I checked the oil (recently changed). It was good. I took a spray bottle of water and started the car up. Predictably it started squealing loudly. I used the spray bottle to mist some water onto the idler pulley. The squeal went away immediately, and after a little bit came back. I repeated the process and the same thing happened. OK, bad idler pulley. I noted in the comments about replacing the idler pulley and belt tensioner at the same time. My father is out getting an oil change in his car today. On his way back he's going to pick up an idler pulley and belt tensioner for me. I will change both tomorrow morning. This video helps make that easy. So thank you for this. You saved me some aggravation for sure! Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

Thanks for stopping by! I appreciate your kind words and am glad this video will help you! This is why I do it…there can never be enough information on how to do something! Happy thanksgiving to you as well! God bless!

[@RonnieKilner-fi2en]

Thank you. Very helpful. Thanks for leaving in the parts where you learned stuff during the process. Excellent video.

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

Hey, thank you very much. I appreciate the kind words. I’m glad it was of help. Thanks for stopping by.

[@madbull0447]

You’re a goat bro, simple video and easy watch. Mines been rattling recently and im about to do it today.

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

Thanks 🙏🏼 i appreciate it! Good luck on your project!

[@annex4904]

Very helpful video. You saved me about 150 bucks. Thanks!!!

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

Thank you for stopping by. I appreciate the awesome kind words. I’m glad it was helpful.

[@walterbright1396]

I changed out the OEM belt on my 2003 MGM at 90,000 in 2009. It will be 20 in Feb 23 at which point I will change out the pulley, tensioner and the belt again. Just a minor out of date factoid. I used to have access to proprietary testing results and Gates belts were far superior to their competitors. My data is now out of date by more than 20 years but it was from good random sampling at the time. A belt supplier would randomly test drive new vehicles that they also supplied belts for and swap out the OEM belt during a test drive and then subject them to testing. Gates did pretty good back then. Hopefully they still have a proprietary advantage today as I use them still for belts and hoses whenever possible.

[@SlikLizrd]

Yes, sir, Walt -- The GATES stuff WAS the good stuff, and it STILL IS !! Been running Gates "RPM" Belt, Tensioner, and Pulleys for over 50,000 miles, with no signs of wear -- and they are still QUIET ! I used Gates "Gold Stripe" Hose to replace the Heater Inlet Hose that runs under the intake manifold. It's a job you only wanna do ONCE, so I got the best hose I could find -- the Gates Gold Stripe. Happy New Year !

[@SlikLizrd]

You can't go wrong with the GATES "RPM Series" Belt and "DriveAlign" Tensioner and Pulleys -- Premium Quality all the way !

[@russellspong3442]

Thanks mate you made it easy

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

@@russellspong3442 you’re welcome, I appreciate you stopping by 🤝🏼

[@PanzerPlatform]

Very nice Art. Now you got me worried about my 2004 Vic 162K Miles & 2010 MGM 88K Miles. They both have original idler pulley & tensioner. lol -Chuck

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

Your cars are babied Chuck! I’m sure they have a happy healthy life in the stables..lol

[@TheBarth79]

HI Chuck.

[@PanzerPlatform]

@@TheBarth79 Yo.

[@redeemedheathen]

Very detailed and fun to watch!! Keep on loving!!

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

Thank you! You back in SC?

[@redeemedheathen]

@@LoveWhatYouDrive back in fayetteville! Good preaching on Xmas bro!!!

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

🙏🏼🫡☝🏼🙌🏼

[@louie5237]

Great video brother 🔥

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

Thank you brother!

[@johnnyohness]

CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION !!! DO NOT REPLACE JUST THE PULLY WHEEL. I made the same mistake on my 1993 Lincoln and now I am replacing the new serpentine belt and now the water pump. As the car ages, the big spring that holds the pully in place weakens. All might be fine after you change it but if you have to hit the gas hard for whatever reason the torque of the engine will throw the belt off and wrap around the fan and destroy your water pump. I am learning this firsthand. It will destroy your new belt and water pump. You might get away with it if you never need to hit the gas hard but don't risk it the damage is terrible. I am doing that replacement right now. I thought I'd save some money by replacing the pully wheel alone, but even doing this myself is costing over 150.00 in replacement parts + the loss of the cost of the new pully alone. Save yourself a big headache and replace the whole assembly. You will thank me for this advice.

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

Thanks for stopping by! What do you mean by replace the whole assembly?

[@johnnyohness]

@@LoveWhatYouDrive The tension pully is mounted to a cast aluminum base. Inside the base is a heavy spring that maintains the tension on the pully. Recently my "mint" 1993 town car with only 80K on it developed a squeak and discovered the pully and maybe the serpentine belt was the problem. I had seen videos of people replacing the whole assembly pully wheel and the base it's mounted to. I thought wow I could get away with replacing just the pully wheel and belt so I did. Though I pamper my beautiful blue/blue leather interior Town Car there was an occasion when I had to give her the beans to get ahead of a big patch of traffic to make a left turn in a residential street before the train-like patch of traffic would make me wait to make the turn. I floored her to get to the street and when making the turn almost ended up in a resident's front yard because the torque of the engine threw off the belt (because of the weak spring) and made me also lose my power steering. Now almost 30 pampered years old then wrapped the new serpentine belt around the fan shaft of the fan/water pump destroying the seals in the water pump as well. You wouldn't think those heavy springs in that assembly would eventually weaken to that point but it sure did. The 4.6 V8 has a ton of low-end torque and not so much on the top end, but that is what happened. Trust me if you are going at a lower speed and need to really give it the beans there's a big possibility this can happen. I did the repair replacing the whole assembly but by trying to be cheap and only replacing the pully wheel I lost the new pully wheel, my new serpentine belt, and now a water pump and all the work it takes to do the job, I was in the middle of doing the repair when I saw your video. Don't replace just the wheel replace the whole thing, as illustrated in your video.

[@DIYCARS_GARAGE]

Awesome content. How do you like the p71 box and tube? 😉

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

Thanks! I love the p71 box and tube , I had to modify to fit without having to add the 80mm maf sensor. Maybe in the future.

[@DIYCARS_GARAGE]

@@LoveWhatYouDrive man I have it on. Don't worry it really doesn't effect it. I've had it on for months now. No check in engine. You can tell there is definitely more response. I don't care what anyone says. The car says it all

[@janedoe6071]

So it’s called the arm to the pulley because the thing the pulley sit on is cracked broke

[@translateslowly]

Thanks man! I use to do all my own work but I'm getting old. This looks like something I kand handle. One of these started making noise today. Nice video, everything explained so even a dumby like me can understand it!

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

Thanks for stopping by! I appreciate the kind words, hope your get it all sorted it! I make these videos because I myself need these kind of videos 🤝🏼

[@itstheoz1]

put 2 new ones on mine both pulleys rub on chain cover

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

Interesting…

[@malik205ify]

My pully won’t come off what should I do

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

Is it the pulley or the bolt ? Tensioner pulley or the idler pulley ?

[@malik205ify]

Pulley I remove the bolt

[@malik205ify]

Idler pulley

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

@@malik205ify it’s probably seized on there, try spraying some penetrant and you’ll just have to pry it off gently with a crow bar or something where you can leverage against the engine. And slowly and gently go around to loosen the pulley from the back.

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

@@malik205ify you may also try heating the bearing where the pulley is sitting in the shaft with a torch of some sort.

[@bjmarchives]

I feel like you’re just guessing on torque specs. Not ideal. For the tensioner mounting bolt, 89 inch pounds (7.417 foot pounds).

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

@@bjmarchives you maybe right about the info. But I don’t just “guess” I’m sure I looked it up online somewhere.

[@gpslightlock1422]

Work smart not hard. Always remove from smallest pulley first working up to the largest pulley last. Installation is reverse - work from largest pulley to smallest pulley.

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

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[@miketerry6036]

Why don’t you let us listen to the noises make it while it’s raining before you take it off we want to see if it’s the same noise on our vehicle

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

Thanks for stopping by, I appreciate you. I actually sincerely tried to recreate the noise in the beginning of the video that’s why I said “I want you to hear this every time I start the car, and it didn’t do it again” I’ve heard other noises that it makes and it doesn’t sound exactly the same. It whines, it howls it makes a screeching noise, it’s different almost every time. It it ended up being the same parts. But you are right, it would be better to have the problem or noises to help you guys out locate the problem. Thanks for advice I’ll try next time! But the parts are so cheap I would almost guarantee that it is what you think it is, the bearing is going out on one of the pulleys and it’s making a horrid noise…good luck!

[@VicMeich]

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[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

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[@VicMeich]

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[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

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[@Milpower]

Take note: 1. Remove dust cover on new pulley bearing. Spray a shot of Slick 50 lubricant into bearing. Replace dust cover. Bearings will now last far longer and be much quieter. 2. Clean serpentine belt, dry, then spray 303 aerospace protectant on it. Or, apply ATP-AT 205. Spray belt every 3 months for belt to last the life of the car.

[@LoveWhatYouDrive]

Was not aware! Thanks for the tips! 💪🏼👍🏼

[@Milpower]

@@LoveWhatYouDrive Had to make two corrections. Enjoy.