Ford taurus tensioner install

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Check out this video to learn many of the places a clunking sound may come from on your vehicle's front end! Our how-to videos have helped repair over million vehicles. Track Order. Free Shipping My Cart. Proceed To Checkout. Search by Vehicle. Select your vehicle. Video Library. Share on:. Copy URL. Installation Instructions Steps Video Transcript Transcript Associated Vehicles Fits Created on: Watch this video to learn how to replace the serpentine belt on your Ford Taurus, or many other vehicles with the 3 liter V6 engine.

Disconnect the battery. Use your 15mm wrench on the tensioner and turn clockwise to release the tension on the belt. Use your 15 mm wrench on the bolt. Pull the idler pulley up and out. Use your T47 Torx bit to remove the bolt and pull out the tesioner.

Swap the bolt over and lower it down into place. Mount the tensioner a little further counter clockwise than necessary and turn it clockwise till the pin locks into place.

Slide your other hand in and slip the serpentine belt off the tensioner pulley. Once the belt is off, allow the tensioner to slowly relax and then remove the tensioner tool. Use the socket set to unbolt the tensioner from the engine. Depending on your year and make of Taurus, this may be accomplished easier from the top side, or through the wheel well, or underneath. Position the new tensioner where the old one was and start the fastening bolts back in by hand, using your other hand.

Once the bolts have begun to thread in properly and are holding, tighten them down with the socket set. Slide the tensioner tool back in and lever the new tensioner backward until you can slip the belt over the pulley with your spare hand.

Slowly allow the tensioner to move back into place and remove the tool. Regularly scheduled maintenance. Typically, belt manufacturers recommend belt replacement at 90, miles. However, the belt must be inspected for wear or damage at regular intervals prior to this high mileage. Squealing noise, belt slippage, visible belt damage. On the Ford Taurus, both pulleys are held on by 15mm bolts. Therefore at a minimum, you need a 15mm wrench to do the job. Apply pressure on the auto tensioner and put the belt over it.

Use the same wrench to loosen the auto tensioner pulley, then pull the belt over it. Once the belt is in place, release the pressure on the tensioner so it holds the belt in place. After the arm is released, you can remove the belt from the rest of the engine pulleys and remove the old belt. The bolt may have a clip on the backside of the pulley and a washer on the front. The washer, clip, and bolt will be re-used with the new pulley. In fact, most start to show serious wear right around the K mile mark.

A worn tensioner actually increases tension on the belt and that increased tension can damage the nose bearings on your AC compressor, power steering pump and alternator. Tensioner pulley wear will cause your pulley to squeak. A worn out pulley bearing or a worn spring in the tension pulley can also cause squeaking or a chirp.

I show you how to use water to identify what type of squeak problem you have and then how to find the problem. You might think of replacing only the pulley bearings in this case.

Mechanics will tell you to replace the entire belt tensioner system. The pulley is what allows the movement of the drive belt. The spring keeps the drive belt in its correct tension. The tensioner arm is a mechanism that allows for the adjustment or the removal of the drive belt.

It delivers enough slack on the drive belt for easier adjustments.