You know i really would have had the technician said the tension has a tendency to sieze and would snap the the belt if that happened, and leave you stranded. So i went ahead and just did it to not have any issues down the road.

@@familygromscarsfun3896 - scare tactics - but at the end of the day you have to be happy and that’s all that matters! Now you don’t have to worry about it in the future

@@condor5635 yup. Agreed. Thanks bud.

It’s actually safer to replace the whole thing! Replaced the pulley and noticed the bolt was stripped and wouldn’t hold the pulley correctly. That coulda been bad later down the road haha

Agree completely. I'm all for OEM parts (Bell Lexus has great sales a few times a year) but I've researched the topic and many people even use non-oem, not model specified pulleys to replace the tensioner pulley if they choose to not press in new bearings into the original. A pulley is one of the simplest components on an engine. The only time I'd spend the time, money and hassle is if the tensioner was not working properly (ie. keeping tension on the belt).

Just look at how it is before you take it off lol or takea pic. sometimes there is even a diagram that show the correct path for it.

Just follow how it was on. take a pic if needed. i just loosen the tensioner to take the belt off. then once the belt was off. and i was done. i routed the belt as it was then lossen the tensioner like i did taking the belt off, and slipped the new belt ojn. super easy! You got this!

If you’re gonna replace the belt might as well do the pulleys as well. Unfortunately I had to replace the whole tensioner because the bolt holding the pulley was stripped. I have an extra OEM tensioner pulley for anyone looking to buy

I did it as good maintinance. The tensioner can sieze and snap the belt.

yeah its probably a good idea. if tensioner fails it will snap ur belt. ask me how I know :)

Yes, you can try replacing just the pulley without the whole tensioner assembly. But they only sell the assembly WITH the pulley already on, so you might be left with an extra pulley like me 😆 let me know if u need buy I’ll post to eBay

The reason they sell the whole assembly is the fact that the tensioner gets siezed sometimes which will snap the belt and lead to a whole world of headaches.

I just unbolted the sway bar busshing mounts to move the sway bar out of the way bud.

Not very long, i'd say maybe 2-3 hours to make sure it went as planned. saved me a lot of money rather than having a shop or the dealer do this work.

Exactly the same

oemvehicleparts.com

Yeah totally was, but doable.