Thread: Is this a pulley problem.

I decided to have another look just in case I missed something, I realised my process of elimination was flawed at the time, when I took the belt off and the noise went away I ruled out any further pulley issues for some strange reason and and went straight for worst case scenario and an accessory causing the fault, somehow the other night when trying to sleep and had it all going through my mind I realised I was a bloody idiot..

So I just pulled the belt again, and checked the tensioner and it is as rough as hell, I can hear it grind when I turn it, so back to the parts department and I will order a new one. Hopefully it is as easy to replace as the other pulley was. It was the only one I never checked before, probably because I had the breaker bar on it and was leaning on it at the time.

Hopefully that's it though as the noise is getting worse, my wife drove the car the other day and I could hear the car coming up the street.

New part arrived this morning from the UK, $180 delivered, beat the $260 the LR dealer wanted for it, had a few other quotes the highest being $334.

Changed it over, took around 30 mins, and now the noise I have been putting up with for months is gone, it is strange how a noise affects the manner in which you drive your car, now I can hear the engine instead of constant whine it is a much nicer to drive.

Cheers for all the input, I am putting this one down as solved
Picture of the new tensioner, the old one sounds terrible just spinning it.