30-01-2013, 07:24 PM
get the longest screwdriver that you can;
when the engines running and you can hear the noise, carefully touch the tensioner with the screwdriver blade----then put your ear to the screwdriver handle. if the bearings in it are fecked, you will hear them through the handle as your ears touching it.
if its not that, then put blade against front/rear of alternator and check that too.
when the engines running and you can hear the noise, carefully touch the tensioner with the screwdriver blade----then put your ear to the screwdriver handle. if the bearings in it are fecked, you will hear them through the handle as your ears touching it.
if its not that, then put blade against front/rear of alternator and check that too.