Idler Pulley Question

[ion] C2 · 10-11-2006, 10:07 PM

2.4L

Sometimes my car makes a nasty scraping sound from the serpentine and pulley area, pinpointed it to the fact that one of these pulleys is loose/damaged and periodically will touch/scrape against whatever it's attached to. So I'm getting my serpentine replaced, and the pulley.

My question is, what are these two pulleys called, so I can find a place to buy them.

It's the green circled one that's scraping, but taking a look at the blue circled one, it looks pretty rusty/nasty, so that may have something to do with it too, so I might just replace that one while I'm at it.

[ion] C2 · 10-12-2006, 03:42 PM

Bumped, since I changed initial post.

AftermathAlero · 10-12-2006, 04:35 PM

i change mine like every 40k miles. The ones from autozone/oreilly's are shitty and the bearing starts togo around that time. The factory OEM one can last up to 80-100k. But the price for the ones at oreillys are a few bucks than the factory ones.

[ion] C2 · 10-12-2006, 09:48 PM

Yeah, but what are the names of the pulleys, is what I need, so I know wtf I'm looking for. lol

Like.. is this it? I found this as being the idler/tensioner pulley for a 2.4L 2000 Alero on the O'Reilly Auto Parts site:

alerored04 · 10-12-2006, 10:35 PM

green im pretty sure is just a free spinning idler pulley and i think the blue one is power steering, might wanna double check that though.

Cliff8928 · 10-13-2006, 03:39 AM

One little tip to save a few bucks is that you can get just he bearing for the pulley if the pulley is metal. It's a timken part number 203FF. Unfortunately the plastic ones are molded around the bearing and they can't be replaced independent of each other.

[ion] C2 · 10-13-2006, 06:55 AM

I think I'm going to just pick up the entire pulley. I assume that pictured one above will work for the green circled one, seems like it would.

[ion] C2 · 10-13-2006, 12:55 PM

Will this fit the 2.4L as well? It came up in the parts categories under the 2.4.

http://replacement.car-stuff.com/par...howdc=true#top

10-13-2006, 07:21 PM

The pulley circled in blue is the A/C compressor.

[ion] C2 · 10-13-2006, 09:50 PM

Thanks for the info.

I ended up going to Murray's to get the idler/tensioner pulley I needed.