04 Chevy Colorado, 3.5 L

Sounds like a clicking noise coming from my belt tensioner. It doesn't do it all the time, and varies in severity each time it happens. proportional to rpm's as well.

thoughts, suggestions, etc?

11/10/2008 5:14:24 PM

clicking proportional to RPM

a bearing somewhere

11/10/2008 5:57:02 PM

really? I can open the hood and I swear it's coming from the tensioner

11/10/2008 6:27:58 PM

take the belt off and check all your idlers

11/10/2008 6:30:48 PM

I don't have the time or tools for that

11/10/2008 6:51:22 PM

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"really? I can open the hood and I swear it's coming from the tensioner"

i would expect the pulleys/tensioner to have bearings but what do i know

[Edited on November 10, 2008 at 8:15 PM. Reason : 

11/10/2008 8:11:35 PM

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"I don't have the time or tools for that"

then why the hell are you asking us? take it somewhere

[Edited on November 10, 2008 at 8:13 PM. Reason : you literally need only one ratchet in most cases to do this]

11/10/2008 8:12:56 PM

Perhaps a crack in the exhaust manifold?

11/10/2008 8:31:00 PM

My dad's water pump started squealing like a pig a few weeks ago.
Then he proceeded to put another 200 miles on the truck (the majority of which were towing a 4,000 lb load) until it locked up and he had to get towed.
A stitch in time...

[Edited on November 10, 2008 at 8:44 PM. Reason : l]

11/10/2008 8:43:25 PM

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"then why the hell are you asking us? take it somewhere"

well lets see

1.) could be something simple/easy fix, that I don't know about
2.) I didn't know what was wrong/the solution, thus how would I know that it would take too long before I made this thread?
3.) so I have more than one diagnosis. Yes, mechanics do like to shit people out of money

11/10/2008 8:49:18 PM

^^ must be a ford, the water pump on big red made it almost 50k miles with a bad bearing and a pretty good leak

11/11/2008 6:07:24 PM

Dodge. It's a BigWhiteRam.

11/12/2008 12:34:30 AM

tell it to shut the hell up, works for women

11/15/2008 12:01:29 PM

^ what do you tell a woman with 2 black eyes?



i bet everybody in the garage knows this joke because were all bigots

11/15/2008 12:17:38 PM

Don't make me tell you again since I've already told you twice?

11/15/2008 12:18:38 PM