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Aug 6, 2007 | 01:32 PM

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Fixed but not fixed...

I replaced my serpentine belt tensioner yesterday, everything was perfect, the noise was gone... now its back just as it was before, it sounds like a rattle.

Any other idea on what else it could be?

This is annoying. UGH.

Aug 6, 2007 | 02:39 PM

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I had a rattle like that as well.

After I had the timing belt job done the rattle was gone.

Aug 6, 2007 | 02:51 PM

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I don't know why it whould have stopped for one day and started again...

Aug 6, 2007 | 03:17 PM

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You didn't put any underdfrive pulleys on did you?

Aug 6, 2007 | 05:46 PM

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Nope.

Just the tensioner.

Aug 6, 2007 | 05:49 PM

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Git yerself a mechanic's stethoscope...>>>

and go looking for the rattle..

Aug 7, 2007 | 06:00 AM

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It goes away when I hit the ECON button... or the AC isn't on...

Which tells me its has something to do with the AC compressor.

Could the 3 (or 4) bolts holding it on have something to do with the guts of that part (which is hear is !@#$%^& EXPENSIVE)