While under my car yesterday (99 GT) I noticed something strange. It seems my serpentine belt is riding about a third of the way off the belt tensioner pully. What I mean by this is the belt is definatly not centered on the tensioner pully. It is actually about 2/3 on the pully with the remaining third going in the direction of the timing cover. It apparently has been this way for a while due to the spotty rust on the unused portion of the tensioner pulley. Now I attempted to correct the problem by centering the belt on the tensioner pulley but in doing so I could tell the belt was not going to stay centered. Apparently (by using the crank pully as my gauge) the tensioner pulley dose not line up with the rest of the pulleys. It is too far forward from the timing cover. After centering the belt it was obvious the pulleys do not line up. I bought the car as the third owner, but with only 41k on the car, I belive the tensioner is the original. Reguardless, the tensioner seems to be installed correctly. I have never had any pulley off the car so I have not caused the problem.
Now I think I'm going to buy a new tensioner and pulley combo to see if that solves my problem. Its about that time anyway now that 40k has arrived. I will be going OEM and not buying any junk for the replacement part. I just thought I would post this to see if anyone else has delt with this and what course of action you took to correct the problem. Thanks.
Now I think I'm going to buy a new tensioner and pulley combo to see if that solves my problem. Its about that time anyway now that 40k has arrived. I will be going OEM and not buying any junk for the replacement part. I just thought I would post this to see if anyone else has delt with this and what course of action you took to correct the problem. Thanks.