sotal Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 When sorting the glow plugs a while back I noticed that the 1/2 drive on the tensioner adjuster arm had crumbled away and the pulley had a chip out of it, and one of the three bolts which hold it in place was missing. I looked up what I needed and it seemed to come as a kit, went to my local LR parts place but they said that the kit had been replaced with individual items, and sold me the arm, the bolt and the pulley. I just came to fit them, the arm was perfect the bolt was perfect, but the pulley doesn't fit, so I had to put the old pulley back on - which having taking it off feels like the bearing is on the way out. I popped back to the LR parts place and told him, but after a fair bit of searching he could only come up with the same part, I left it with him and he's going to get back to me, just wondered if anyone new what you need to do! The parts diagram shows the pulley looking the same as my old one. Mine currently goes onto the arm, then a dust cover goes on and the bolt presses the dust cover against the bearing but doesn't quite touch the pulley. The new one is the same diameter but it is deeper and the dust cover won't reach the bearing so if you try and bolt it on it would seize the pulley. Anybody come across this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RRX Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Which tensioner is this? the air con or the fan belt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotal Posted December 18, 2007 Author Share Posted December 18, 2007 the only manual tensioner, just under the air con compressor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RRX Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Air con belt one it is, i replaced mine a few weeks back and had to get everything new as mine fell off(forgot to tighten the bolts up) . can you get a picture up as it sounds different to the one i got as it all went together on mine fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotal Posted December 19, 2007 Author Share Posted December 19, 2007 Thanks RRX, just read my reply from yesterday - it's seemed a bit rude - sorry about that - wasn't meant to be I was just in a rush! The LR parts place got back to me and have sorted me a replacement which I'll fit at the weekend, it's different to my original one but should go on, not got any pics but my original one was as per the parts catalogue, which was a bolt which goes through the dust cover and presses the dust cover against the bearing, but leaves a very slight gap between the pulley itself and the dust cover. The new one has a bolt and washer which go directly on to the bearing then it has a dust cover with no hole in the middle which just taps into place, the whole pulley is about 10mm deeper but that won't make any difference, it actually looks a better design - hopefully it'll all fit now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RRX Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 The new one has a bolt and washer which go directly on to the bearing then it has a dust cover with no hole in the middle which just taps into place, the whole pulley is about 10mm deeper but that won't make any difference, it actually looks a better design - hopefully it'll all fit now that sounds like the one i have now, dust cover is a right pain to fit in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotal Posted December 19, 2007 Author Share Posted December 19, 2007 yeah it was a pain! I ended up tapping it in with a rubber mallet, all on now and torqued up. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimAttrill Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 The bearing is either a 6203 or a 6301 I have changed what seems like hundreds of them. Cheap (but LR don't sell the bearing separately). When I say either a 6203 or a 6301 it is because some pulleys have different bearings, so we keep stock of both. Also some arms are made of steel and some alloy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotal Posted December 20, 2007 Author Share Posted December 20, 2007 I couldn't just change the bearing as the pulley had a chip out of it. Interestingly though the first pulley I was sold was a Britpart one which there didn't look anyway to get the bearing out, the one it's been replaced with is a genuine LR one and that has a big clip holding the bearing in so if that bearing ever wears out it'll be a quick pop down to the bearing shop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimAttrill Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 Some have those 'non-removable' circlips where you have to drill a bit of a hole in the pulley to get behind the circlip. I was originally told by a nice LR parts guy to go up the road and buy the bearing at 1/64th of the LR price. I didn't know about standard size bearings at the time - assumed they were all made-to-measure. Owning a Land Rover has taught me a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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