Thread: What happened to your D3/D4 today?

The belt is badly glazed and I would think that it will be noisey. The tensioner has been seriously compromised. I wouldn't trust it any further than I could throw it, and that's not far at my age.
For the sake of a couple of hundred dollars you are going to risk having a failure and leaving yourself stuck somewhere. A tow home will cost far more than the cost of a proper repair.
LuckyLes

Fair call. I've just ordered both tensioner and idler, plus a new belt. I will put this back together with a new bearing though as it's my only transport. Just have to run it until the new stuff arrives.

I'd just go a whole new tensioner also - comes with the idler on it already and they are not that expensive. Tensioners are known to fail from time to time so worth the effort to replace.

I meant I've ordered a complete tensioner (spring arm and pulley) and a complete idler (fixed arm and pulley). If I'm going to do one I may as well do both.

Can replace the idler pulley and use a patrol one or just replace the bearing.

The pulley is fine. I'll put a new bearing in it tomorrow and that'll do me until the new bits arrive and I've time to put it all in. To be honest I'm not really worried. The tensioner moves ok, has plenty of spring and the ground off bits aren't structural.

Originally Posted by BradC

Fair call. I've just ordered both tensioner and idler, plus a new belt. I will put this back together with a new bearing though as it's my only transport. Just have to run it until the new stuff arrives.

Should've kept a Volvo.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Should've kept a Volvo.

Don't you start. I had sellers regret the second I came home and saw it gone. I might have even shed a tear.

Having said that, the fact I probably got 600km on the Antichrist with the tensioner rotating on nothing but metal on metal and yet it still got me home does help confidence in the vehicle.