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Feb 14, 2013 | 10:50 AM

#16

White Max

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From: Imperial, MO

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Originally Posted by stewart89

You can just replace the bearing for cheaper than that.

Agreed.

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Originally Posted by stewart89

I've noticed that these sites only sell the whole arm assembly. That's why they are so expensive.

RockAuto sells the complete tensioner assembly OR just the pulley w/bearing.

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Originally Posted by White Max

If you only needed to replace the tensioner pulley, you could have grabbed one for as little as $10.

Feb 14, 2013 | 11:54 AM

#17

Island'r

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From: Vancouver Island BC

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Originally Posted by stewart89

My rad had a slow leak in it, I put some ceramic rad sealer in and it fixed the leak.

I used that stuff once in my '79 Bronco... Never again. Caused all kinds of problems. End result was a toasted engine. I have had it work in POS cars that I didnt care about though... Figures eh?

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Originally Posted by White Max

$94 for the tensioner on a '97 460? The most expensive one on RockAuto is a Motorcraft for $60 (#F5UZ6B209A). A Dayco is only $33. If you only needed to replace the tensioner pulley, you could have grabbed one for as little as $10.

Dont forget... I'm up here in the Great White North. And the one disadvantage to that is that we get ****ed on buying pretty much any part... for anything; Cars, trucks, guitars, hot tubs, you name it. (oh and beer is WAY more expensive here too!) I used to be close to the border and would cross over to buy parts for my '67 Mustang. Ususally half the price or less compared to my local store, and I get a 30% discount here!!!

Yes Rock auto has it for $60, but the cheapest shipping (Ground) was $35 ~ Price ends up same as I paid at Ford, but Ford brought it in overnight. If I wanted it somewhat quick from Rock Auto (probably a day or 2) I would have to shell out $63 in shipping for a $60 part... That is pretty stupid, but very normal.

That cheap Dayco tensioner says it all though... $30 down there, $200 up here... rediculous. Funny thing is, half the Motorcraft tensioner is Made by Dayco. The other half is stamped Ford (probably still manufactured by Dayco) ... The Ford had the proper pulley, the Dayco didnt. The original Motorcraft lasted 270,000 Kms. Lets hope this one does the same.

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Originally Posted by White Max

Agreed.

RockAuto sells the complete tensioner assembly OR just the pulley w/bearing.

Yeah unfortunately both were toast in my case. Pully bearing was gone, and tensioner was no longer holding tension, and was out of plane... The old belts look like they had been through a war.

Feb 14, 2013 | 01:06 PM

#18

dixie460

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From: SW Florida

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Originally Posted by Island'r

While I have it off might as well do the thermostat, upper & lower hoses, heater hoses are old and stiff, should just do them too (What is the one that goes from the below the Rad cap, and then has a hard steel line that runs over top of the rad and ties into the heater lines?)

That is your throttle body heater return line. If you follow that line back to the throttle body, you'll see another line that feeds coolant to the throttle body. I don't know if you can get them. I removed them on both OBS trucks that I've owned, with no consequences. When I took it off my 96, I found that there was mud in there so no coolant ever flowed thru it anyway... at least it hadn't for a long time.

I thought maybe it's purpose was to act like the carburetor heater on piston powered aircraft, but if you look at the throttle body, it ain't a venturi shape like a carb is, so no cooling/icing effect would happen.

Either way, one less failure point for my truck.