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R50/53 Serpentine Belt etc

Old Sep 25, 2021 | 06:49 AM
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Serpentine Belt etc

Yesterday my serpentine snapped, the good side is it verified the awful sound I heard during low speed cornering to be related to the belt. The other good is I get to get into this now and hopefully not have to think about it for a while. The bad is I wanted to focus on my non-opening driver door but it'll wait.

While I'm there I will update the tensioner, waterpump&pulley, camshaft pulley and of course the belt, wondering if theres anything else I should order or look at while the fender liners are off. TIA
 
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Old Sep 25, 2021 | 08:30 AM
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How many miles on it? Check the harmonic balancer. Mine blew up at a bit over 130K on the clock near 700 miles from home. Damned inconvenient.
 
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Old Sep 25, 2021 | 08:51 AM
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Mine is at 67k, but I think I'll swap it out anyway
 
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