My First Carnage
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My First Carnage
I had my first expensive breakage this weekend. The tensioner broke in half. I have been in a diesel shop for 10 years now and never seen a tensioner break like this one. The pulley chunk took out the fan / radiator / shroud / belt.
I was racing my friends D-Max when it let loose. (I did win by the way )
He is pretty cool, he gave me his truck for a couple of days until I get the parts to fix mine.
I am trying to figure out how it broke the way it did. All the pulleys are good and aligned. CTD's really suck when you loose power steering and brakes. I could see it causing a bad accident if a belt broke and cars in front of you.
I was racing my friends D-Max when it let loose. (I did win by the way )
He is pretty cool, he gave me his truck for a couple of days until I get the parts to fix mine.
I am trying to figure out how it broke the way it did. All the pulleys are good and aligned. CTD's really suck when you loose power steering and brakes. I could see it causing a bad accident if a belt broke and cars in front of you.
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I was going about 85+ when I had him by 4 truck lengths. I went to hit the brakes and I felt like ol' Al Bundy..... No brakes....No brakes!
We had a pack of diesels that night. 2 05 CTDs, 01 CTD, 02 CTD, and 01 D-Max we were all heading to the ski slope to ride tubes down the mountain.
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I was thinking about that the other day. If we loose or belt we loose our brakes. Sort of a risky situation.
Glad things worked out for you. Parts are fixable, lives aren't.
Glad things worked out for you. Parts are fixable, lives aren't.
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I cannot believe they dont make these things with an emergency electric booster like the GMC 5500/6500's have. It could have been REALLY bad, no brakes or steering.
Try turning of your engine in neutral next time you are driving and see for yourself how bad it is.
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yep mine did yhe same thing, i was lucky got home from a fishing tip and let loose backing my trailer in. what a p.o.s it was like 260 bucks from the dealer and wasnt covered.
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3947574 Display part line detail
TENSIONER,BELT $56.31 $56.31 Show part supersession Delete part line
That is the cost of the tensioner from Cummins. How can the dealer mark up the part that much????
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Have you installed the over running alternator pulley..it eliminates belt chirp at shut down which causes belt wear and/or shred...it may have led to the pulley breaking as well ..Link to TSB:
http://dodgeram.info/tsb/2006/09-004-06.htm
http://dodgeram.info/tsb/2006/09-004-06.htm
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Have you installed the over running alternator pulley..it eliminates belt chirp at shut down which causes belt wear and/or shred...it may have led to the pulley breaking as well ..Link to TSB:
http://dodgeram.info/tsb/2006/09-004-06.htm
http://dodgeram.info/tsb/2006/09-004-06.htm
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The Overrunning alternator pulley should have been a recall but Dodge would rather you and I drive a dangerous truck..
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I dont like the way the tensioner broke and the new one looks identical to the old one. I dont feel real good about it.
FWIW, my tensioner broke as well, but was a result of the Jacob's vacuum pump locking up, and the belt melting till it snapped.
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