Belt Tensioner SNAPPED OFF

[RedlandRanger]

More details, please! This looks like another potential "just in case" fix.

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[Loweredon33s]

More details, please! This looks like another potential "just in case" fix.

It a brace that should prevent the failure. It should also repair a broken one.

 

[RedlandRanger]

It a brace that should prevent the failure. It should also repair a broken one.

Did you make it? Buy it?

 

[Loweredon33s]

Did you make it? Buy it?

I made it. Been on my truck a couple years now.

 

[Dr. Zaius]

I made it. Been on my truck a couple years now.

Did you add a longer bolt to the lifting point mount?

It looks like it's further back and mounted to the aluminum ear on the block.

If so, did you thread the ear and add a bolt?

 

[Loweredon33s]

Did you add a longer bolt to the lifting point mount?

It looks like it's further back and mounted to the aluminum ear on the block.

If so, did you thread the ear and add a bolt?

It has two extra mounting points.

 

[TJC]

I made it. Been on my truck a couple years now.

Does it need to be flexible or would a piece made from aluminum work better?

 

[Racket]

It looks like Mike identified a potential weak point and engineered a solution.

Now I'll obsess about needing one like I did the @Fitzmotor transmission dipstick.

 

[Superspirit]

@Loweredon33s ,
So when will these be available?
This might be your golden opportunity.

 

[TJC]

@Loweredon33s ,
So when will these be available?
This might be your golden opportunity.

I tried a few years back to order one... there is a need.

I hope you are more successful.

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My father in law casts aluminum parts and is very good at it. If I had a sample to go by I might be able to talk him in to casting them. He would have to make a casting mold. It is a complicated process that largely depends on the shape of the part. Different types of sand used for different shapes. He has the knowledge and skill to do it. He also has the equipment to machine finish them.

But he is also slowing down a bit in his mid 80's. I'm not sure he would take on a project this big... casting parts is resource intensive, in time and physical effort.

He has sent samples off the be cast in bulk to an outfit in Canada. He goes up annually to pick up parts, but since c@v1d, crossing the border has become a bit more complicated. Not sure of that situation at the present.

He still spends most of his days tending his organic veggie garden and fabricating all manner of outboard engine parts in his machine shop. He once had a collection of over 300 outboards dating from the late 1890s to mid 1950s that looked and ran like new. He's been selling them off in the last 5 years.

He actually made his own piston rings... and a myriad of other parts to keep those antiques running.

 

[Ranger_Pawl]

Sounds like a great FIL. He should be slowing down a bit. I am and I'm only in my mid 60's.

 

[Cmar]

I tried a few years back to order one... there is a need.

I hope you are more successful.

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My father in law casts aluminum parts and is very good at it. If I had a sample to go by I might be able to talk him in to casting them. He would have to make a casting mold. It is a complicated process that largely depends on the shape of the part. Different types of sand used for different shapes. He has the knowledge and skill to do it. He also has the equipment to machine finish them.

But he is also slowing down a bit in his mid 80's. I'm not sure he would take on a project this big... casting parts is resource intensive, in time and physical effort.

He has sent samples off the be cast in bulk to an outfit in Canada. He goes up annually to pick up parts, but since c@v1d, crossing the border has become a bit more complicated. Not sure of that situation at the present.

He still spends most of his days tending his organic veggie garden and fabricating all manner of outboard engine parts in his machine shop. He once had a collection of over 300 outboards dating from the late 1890s to mid 1950s that looked and ran like new. He's been selling them off in the last 5 years.

He actually made his own piston rings... and a myriad of other parts to keep those antiques running.

Souls a bit like my dad, he was a retired mechanical engineer, after retirement set up his own machine shop and kept on making things until he passed at 93. The last couple of years he was teaching himself CNC machining as it wasn't a big thing obviously in his working life. I still use some of his tools today.

 

[lthom]

If anyone has this happen the belt idler from a 2018 Ford escape with the 2.0 engine fit perfectly. It bolts to the head and block

 

[Stevedbvik1]

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If anyone has this happen the belt idler from a 2018 Ford escape with the 2.0 engine fit perfectly. It bolts to the head and block

Nice! Same pulley diameter and belt?

 

[TJC]

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Nice! Same pulley diameter and belt?

Based up the answers to the above questions, I may preemptively install one.

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