Heres my attempt at pics with first cut,puckerfactor of 9 when you cant put aluminum back on!

 

Heres the harder one if using a sawzall and caution,went slowly and made several small slices then snapped out with needlenose.

 

Well it is much easier after you do it because the fear of a trashed brackett haunted me,winter coming,so anyway heres as far as I got before i got WIFED.

 

Nice job, you got more guts then I do. Let us know how it works.

 

don't guess i've seen this one what are you doing?

 

Sorry bout that lack of info,its a old TSB from ford to upgrade from single weaker style tensioner pulley to a 99-03 style dual that has less leverage acting on it and better bearing life in idlers,in fact in the days of warranty on these trucks it was a free switcherooo from ford according to TSB ,missed that by 15 years! I dont remember tsb # but I found it on here and powerstrokenation.com and researched it heavy before I dove in, glad I did it now though.

 

X2-------Looks very interesting though.

 

http://www.thedieselstop.com/faq/949...les/982314.pdf

 

So basically, all you have to do is cut off the ONE idler pulley mount? In that first picture it looks like there is two of them, maybe its a mirror image?

 

Glenn, I think the top piece is the piece he cut off

I would like to see a pic of the finished mod in the truck. Is there a easy way to tell if this upgrade has already been done?

 

Two eyes are better then one Rich, LOL. My guess is if the upgrade has been done, then when you loosen the tensioner both pulleys will rotate.

 

I got it in and it fixed the prob I had with water pump pulley having the belt ride to the rear lip up on edge of pulley and feathering belts,it also is WAY WAY tighter ( it has the square for a 1/2" breaker so better than stock 15mm nut to rotate spring up)than my old P.O.S stock ford single,and all the squealing and chirping I had is gone ,it was so annoying I'm glad to hear the engine now!. I cant really get pics on engine due to too much stuff in the way but the only real mods are two relatively simple cuts on alt brackett.

 

OK, two cuts? Where's the other cut?

 

See #2 (permalink) Picture that's a depth gauge of the micrometer measuring down to where he made the second cut.

 

Rich for the win again! I get it now.