Serpentine Belt
The idler pulley on my 2015 Ford E350 with the Triton V10 with A/C is chirping. 43,000 miles on it. So I figure while I'm changing the idler I'll replace the belt. A friend of mine who is a mechanic...
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Dusty R wrote:
Many years ago when my first Ford that had a serpentine belt was starting to get cracks in it, I asked the mechanic that I had gotten to know and trust, said that Ford had told them not to worry about those belts until they started loosing rubber.
Dusty
X2!
Had a 2003 F250 that went up to 223,000 miles with the ORIGINAL serp belt.
The ONLY reason it was replaced was one of the idle pulley bearings went bad and was screeching continually..
43K miles is nothing for those idlers, are you REALLY sure it is the idler and not just the BELT causing the chirp? Belts sometimes will chirp just for no good reason.
