I have a 1991 Mercury Tracer.
it has a strange rattle coming from what I thought was the belt tensioner, it sounds worst at idle, they gradually gets drowned out in higher rpm's (but never disappears fully)
I changed the tensioner today, and put on a new belt... now it sounds more scary and metallic. I know the most likely culprit is the timing area, but doing anything to this car is ridiculous, has anyone here successfully changed a timing belt on a car like this? the engine is in the bay horizontally and I could barely get the new belt on.
anyone else experience something like this?
I am just looking at the most likely culprits so I can take it to my mechanic without him telling me that everything under the sun is wrong with this thing...
Peter