Tensioner Pulley!

[Forest]

So I go on break from work and decide to go to McDonalds. My boss talls me to hurry, so i take off, just bouncing off the rev limiter, after the second time, i hear a thud thud thud... I look behind me just in time to see something fall out fropm beneath my car!!! As i turn around to see what it is, I realize that my Battery warning light is on, all i can think is "oh no" (five alternators in six months). I stop and pop the hood to realize that my tensioner pulley has fallen off. so the belt is just floppin around. So no alternator= no electricity= car no run. Couldnt find the nut and washer and the pulley is chewed up. There is apparently only one 4th Gen. Celica in any Salvage yard in NWA!!!! And it doesnt have the pulley. SO the only place to get it is the dealer, damn it!!!! The man out to get me down again!!! the only parts i can get off the car, i want to stay on the car, and the only parts i need off the car wont come off!!

[Mays]

heh, that kinda happened to me, all my frickin belts came off and took the idler pulley with it. I didn't know that stupid thing was plastic.

[Mr. Merk]

yah that's kinda important.........mines a *%%& to get the belt on

[BDP]

can you not have someone cross-reference the part to another engine?

You could try to locate a smaller belt or loosen the alternator and powersteering/AC pumps and measure the diameter of everything then go get a belt slightly larger than the measurement and use the alternator/powersteering/AC pump all as individual belt tensioners.

Note that under full load, the alternator belt (unless serpentine) will need to be extremely tight due to the resistance of the stator.


Goodluck in finding your part/getting the car going. Let us know if we can assist in anyway.

[SSCaprice]

lotus Elise has the same engine as the newer celicas just thought id add that