I've been hearing a inconsistent sort of scraping noise. Not like water pump or anything like that but it's been doing this since Saturday night. I was going to have it looked at tomorrow morning but then tonight less than 2 miles from home I heard something give under the hood and my power steering went out. The truck still ran but the noise was now gone. I pulled off into a parking lot and I noticed the serpentine belt was off. Then I saw this pulley had come off and lodged itself between the block and a bracket after it came loose. I retrieved the pulley, put the serpentine belt on the floor in the rear and drove the truck the remaining 2 miles home very cautiously. So, I need to replace this pulley but I don't know what it goes to. I took a picture of where it came off from. It's the left-most pulley that sit directly below where the oil dipstick handle is. That yellow you see at the top center is the dipstick handle. It looks like all I need to do is remove the single bolt and replace the pulley. Sound correct to you? Now if I just knew what pulley to ask for. I does take a serpentine belt as it has all the outer grooves.

Thanks Fellas!

 

Tensioner Pulley. Replace the pulley AND the spring section behind it. While you can get just the pulley, you can also get it as all one buy at AutoZone for like $50.

IndyDurango

 

Its the fan belt tensioner. Just like indy had said.

 

I to am in need to replace that too started squeeking awhile ago.. waiting till after Christmas so i have a warm place to do it since me and auto repairs under 40 degrees don't get along very well....

I don't drive much so i should be fine till then... but, was wondering is it hard to do? any tricks?

 

Easy, unbolt from the lower side (not shown) when replacing the spring and all as one unit.

If you cheap out and just replace the pulley, make sure you don't over tighten to strip the one bolt when putting the new one back in place. As Dad taught me," tight is tight and to tight is broke."

Stripping it myself was the reason I replaced the whole thing on mine in the first place. Only after did I notice it was better to replace the 12 year old spring anyways so all worked out well in the end.

IndyDurango

 

I was thinking the same thing... mines put in almost 14 years of good service so why not just replace the whole thing and be done with it... i been doing that thinking with most things when they wear, replace what i can while im in there.

 

yeah i had to replace that whole thing too... you can do it from the top its just kinda a pain. replace the whole thing... its better that way.. plus after 12 years that spring was all gummed up and limpish