Seeing bare dirt in my driveway after selling my saturn, and suffering a week off from work (with the kids in school), I hit the classifieds and drove north for a new used F150.
Seller was a regular joe, he lived on a cliff and slipped on some ice, wrecking his shoulder, and he can't drive stick. Traded cars with his wife, she got sick of this truck, mostly because the belt tensioner seized and was making a horrendous racket.
His solution was to spray white lithium grease on the offending bearing; this cleared up the noise for 1/2 second so I could hear the motor (his words.)
Blah blah blah, whipped out some cash, it's mine.
Thing failed inspection for some minor oil leaks-- the tech must have hated the guy or something. Only way to fail is if the oil is a fire hazard by dripping on exhaust which this thing isn't doing.
Also, the e-brake "wasn't working", a function of a spring on the release doohickey springing out of its position. This is where I mention again that the guy lived on a cliff and just left the truck in gear so it wouldn't roll away.
Oh, and the tires aren't the greatest. No problem, he put 1500 lbs of sand in the bed for traction. Truck was a slug coming home, and I didn't speed due to my expired inspection. When I got home I found it was the Eddie Vetter edition with cruise control along with shag carpeting, velour seats, and anything else that soaks up cigarette smoke. Wife (chase car) was nagging me over going 59 in a 65 but I saved us both gas.
BTW, I put the sand on some low, eroded spots of my driveway. For the win.
Anyway on to the photographs.
This is the spray from the lithium grease. I replaced the bearing with... TL;DR... a used 6203 bearing from a saturn alternator. Said alternator was making noise so I got a new bearing for *that* which helped nothing. Turns out the (saturn alt) pulley was warped and chriping on the belt so I just threw a different alternator in. ANYWAY, I don't ever throw anything out and these 6203 bearings are all over the automotive world.
^ PS, sharp-eyed Bob-ers might notice the AC compressor is a few inches back and not part of the belt drive. There's a way of rigging the mounting bolts to put it "on standby". This was a PO hack-- I had nothing to do with it.
The offending bearing was seized and likely just spinning on its bolt:
Now I have to get the moisture out of this headlight! I had poor results in the past sticking one in the oven at 200 degrees as the reflective stuff just wasn't the same. I can't fit a boot dryer in the hole, not even a night light. So... incandescent xmas lights!
BTW, the bulb made a satisfying "pop" vacuum noise when I finally finagled it out of the housing.
Throw on a yule log!
Seller was a regular joe, he lived on a cliff and slipped on some ice, wrecking his shoulder, and he can't drive stick. Traded cars with his wife, she got sick of this truck, mostly because the belt tensioner seized and was making a horrendous racket.
His solution was to spray white lithium grease on the offending bearing; this cleared up the noise for 1/2 second so I could hear the motor (his words.)
Blah blah blah, whipped out some cash, it's mine.
Thing failed inspection for some minor oil leaks-- the tech must have hated the guy or something. Only way to fail is if the oil is a fire hazard by dripping on exhaust which this thing isn't doing.
Also, the e-brake "wasn't working", a function of a spring on the release doohickey springing out of its position. This is where I mention again that the guy lived on a cliff and just left the truck in gear so it wouldn't roll away.
Oh, and the tires aren't the greatest. No problem, he put 1500 lbs of sand in the bed for traction. Truck was a slug coming home, and I didn't speed due to my expired inspection. When I got home I found it was the Eddie Vetter edition with cruise control along with shag carpeting, velour seats, and anything else that soaks up cigarette smoke. Wife (chase car) was nagging me over going 59 in a 65 but I saved us both gas.
BTW, I put the sand on some low, eroded spots of my driveway. For the win.
Anyway on to the photographs.
This is the spray from the lithium grease. I replaced the bearing with... TL;DR... a used 6203 bearing from a saturn alternator. Said alternator was making noise so I got a new bearing for *that* which helped nothing. Turns out the (saturn alt) pulley was warped and chriping on the belt so I just threw a different alternator in. ANYWAY, I don't ever throw anything out and these 6203 bearings are all over the automotive world.
^ PS, sharp-eyed Bob-ers might notice the AC compressor is a few inches back and not part of the belt drive. There's a way of rigging the mounting bolts to put it "on standby". This was a PO hack-- I had nothing to do with it.
The offending bearing was seized and likely just spinning on its bolt:
Now I have to get the moisture out of this headlight! I had poor results in the past sticking one in the oven at 200 degrees as the reflective stuff just wasn't the same. I can't fit a boot dryer in the hole, not even a night light. So... incandescent xmas lights!
BTW, the bulb made a satisfying "pop" vacuum noise when I finally finagled it out of the housing.
Throw on a yule log!
