So, driving along in my 04 all good right? no odd noises or anything. then out of nowhere the belt went kabooie, the idler pully had locked up, and well came apart at the bearing, so a luck call to a napa and parts delivered, i have a new pully, belt, crank position sensor on there way to me on the side of the road.

and a massive oil leak.

so now that i'm home, and a well lubed underside of my truck, i'm wondering what could be leaking. and how hard it is to take the fornt of the truck apart to replace said seals.

i know youre gonna say where is the leak coming from,, i have no idea. cant tell, when i clenaed it and ran the truck the fan blows oil everwhere.

so am i looking at gear cover reseal, simple crank seal.? how hard are these to reseal. what elses could it be? crack somewhere in the front case?

this sucks as this truck has never had an oil leak.

Do i have to take the fornt of the truck apart? or can the seals be replace without dissasembly?

Edited October 7, 20186 yr by Killer223

 Did yours go without warning?

 

I've had about 3-4 idler pulley bearing failures. 3 were on my 92 12 valve I drove for 22 years and one so far on my 02. Every one of those failures gave me warning. They all had a scraping or a squeal sound and always changed them before the belt came off or bearing fell apart. I think its a good idea to check that bearing at least every year now that you've shared what happened.

 

 

5 hours ago, JAG1 said:

 Did yours go without warning?

 

I've had about 3-4 idler pulley bearing failures. 3 were on my 92 12 valve I drove for 22 years and one so far on my 02. Every one of those failures gave me warning. They all had a scraping or a squeal sound and always changed them before the belt came off or bearing fell apart. I think its a good idea to check that bearing at least every year now that you've shared what happened.

 

 

 

The 3rd gen has an idler pully in addition to the belt tensioner. 1st and 2nd gen don't have it. My local store has them in stock. I would think your store could have them overnight.

 

Napa seal:https://www.napaonline.com/en/search?text=front%2Bseal&q=N%3D5002000%2B5002200%2B200220780%2B10200500%2B599999900%2B402203200%2B2500010%26Nty%3D1%26Ntk%3DKeyword%26Ntt%3Dfront%2Bseal&isApplication=true&indices=API

 

Napa idler pully:https://www.napaonline.com/en/search?text=idler pulley&q=N%3D5002000%2B5002200%2B200220780%2B10200500%2B599999900%2B402203200%2B1000013200%26Nty%3D1%26Ntk%3DKeyword%26Ntt%3Didler%2Bpully&isApplication=true&indices=API

Thank you I make this mistake too often assuming every discussion is about a second gen truck. 

the idler went out on my way back from VA, on the west side of Oklahoma city. it made no noise, no squeal, nothing. the lucky call to napa was that one they had one, and two would deliver it to the side of the road for me. limped the truck all the way back to flag, reoiling I40 as i went.

really hate design engineers that pull this ****. like i hate them with a passion. along with whoever approved this design. need to be fired.

 

any idea how to pull the power steering pump off? i hate doing extra unneeded work... OMFG.

11 hours ago, Killer223 said:

any idea how to pull the power steering pump off? i hate doing extra unneeded work... OMFG.

 

If I remember right the power steering bracket is rather strange and required you to reach through the pulley to remove the bolts and then was the pump was detached you can get that bolt out. 

yes it's easy 3 bolts, but a step i shouldn't have to do.

yeah remind me to never do that again. sometimes i hate turning wrenches. just because i can and have the intellect to do, doesn't mean i have the desire.

Most things i really like wrenching on, but this sucked.

sad part is, i have to do the 95 12V next,

95 will be easy compared to the CR engine.