i was trying a new transmition tune and testing my car shift point and sudenly power steering went out , i stoped emidiatanly and i saw the belt out and a pully with half a bracket lying around and the tensioer base broken into half

why did this happin any idears

i dears how can i get another one
pics will be coming soon

 

my belt popped off a few days ago, but the tensioner didnt break. I am upgrading to the hd tensioner sometime soon, might want to look into it. magnacharger and any of their dealers sell it.

 

can you give me a link please for the product cause i did not find any thing and is all 5.3 and 6.2 tvs tensioners are the same

 

I couldnt find it on their website either but if you call a dealer they should be able to hook you up. Its around $130.

 

A few months ago i found a maggie tensioner thread.

The poster found that a gates tensioner was superior and less expensive to the maggie tensioner for his application.

Might what to try it.

 

Do you have a link to the thread? I couldnt find it.

 

Without looking up the old threads, here is a little info I've saved from them over time and not my own words. This was supposedly determined to be the strongest of the stock replacement models.

Radix Tensioner & Idler Pulley Part #’s

Gates 38131 Belt Tensioner Assembly. - Comes with a plastic smooth pulley. I removed it to make way for the steel grooved wheel. The radix supplied tensioner mounting bolt works fine. Removing the plastic sleeve from the locating pin is required.

Gates 36100 Belt Tensioner Pulley. - Steel 75mm 6 Rib steel with 17mm bearing bore.

Info below was posted by Dr.X just a day or two ago:
Standard Radix kit tensioner:

From 87-96 Ford F-Truck/E-Van 4.9L or 87-92 Bronco 4.9L
Dayco # 89222, Pulley # 89009
Napa, Gates, ACDelco # 38131
Four Seasons # 45869
Goodyear 49233

* Tensioner comes with the wrong pulley. Correct pulley is Dayco 89009.

 

https://ls1tech.com/affiliates/truck....php?p=3854995

Try this Richard.

Great Info 1 Bear!

 

i see that i have a defrant type of tensioner maybe its defrant for type for the new engines cuse it looks alot defrant

i asked a frined in the states magna a call

i will dismantel it soon and i will see what can i find

 

Good luck finding a new hd tensioner, as Atomic said, check out the dealer.