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Awful sound
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 10:41 pm
by Loperamide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQMqLDocGrs
can anyone tell me what that awful sound is?
2003 4.4i
Re: Awful sound
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:27 pm
by henrym3
Chain guides gone south
Re: Awful sound
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 11:15 pm
by Loperamide
It's not chain guides, sounds more like bearings. Maybe pulley or tensioner?
Forgot to mention can mostly hear it when engine is cold first thing in morning.
Re: Awful sound
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 11:15 am
by henrym3
If you suspect pulleys or tensioner then whip off the auxiliary belts one at-a time and see if the noise disappears when you run the engine
Re: Awful sound
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2019 9:13 am
by marti
Sounds like a pulley tensioner to me??, may even be the Alternator......