So i'm driving along and pull into a parking lot ... notice a rattling ... turn my music down... rattle is real loud and car stalls out. Well i am car dumb, so call up friends . Brings the car to his house ... pulls it apart. HA HA freakin ha... my timing belt tensioner shattered into 3 pieces !!! I also find out you need a fancy ford tool to fix the timing ... lol.... i gonna cry now ... i just wanted to share my sad story... thank god my friend works for another dealer ship and can borrow the tool ... and hopefully fix my car on monday..
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That sucks. You don't need a special tool, you need two hehehe. But Haynes tells you how to make them, but if you don't have the time to do it yourself, that's ok. I think I'm thankful I chose to do my belt when I did...
As is, and Half the bearings gone. And I couldn't hear anything that bad, but could see the belt and other tensioners had rubber chunks embedded on them.
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you don't really need any special tools to change the timing belt. if you are going to do it yourself you just need a good set of tools and some knowledge, search for a thread called timing belt faq, that should answer alot of your questions
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