Dont waste your time buying a used one. Save your money, do it right, and get a Dayco.

Anyways, take the ignition coil off, take the belt off, and take the bolt off that holds the tensioner. Use some PB Blaster as the screws to the ignition coil are a PITA. Make sure when you install the tensioner you get the little alignment dowel in the little hole.

 

Yes you definitely DO NOT want a junk yard tensioner i just did my dads on his 98 not hard at all maybe 10 or 15 minutes

 

Oh ok, didn't know if this was a part that I could "sneak" my way around just because I don't have a lot of money.

 

looks like all you need is the pulley not the whole assembly...

you can throw a new idler pulley on to get you by until you can get the right part... the bolt holding the pulley on is reverse threaded pretty simple....

is that what your tick was??

 

Oh ok, I can buy a new one for like $15 but the ticking was my fuel injectors

 

Replace the whole thing. Even though the bearing on yours is one of the problems, the spring that puts tension on the belt wears out over time due to corrosion (not a sealed design) and the fact that springs loose their tension over time.

 

Alright, well that will be my next project, sounds pretty simple so I shouldn't have too many problems, thanks!