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Originally Posted by dedonderosa
ok so im trying to help out my buddy who doesn't do forums etc. his TENSIONER pulley is making noise on his 16 4R and he went to toyota and as we all know they dont sell the pulley itself for the tensioner only the whole assembly. i just wanted to know if anyone has changed the bearing itself or knows the part number of the bearing to use to swap out in the tensioner pulley. ive searched all over and only came up with 4th gen guys saying 5203KSSE but not sure if its the same. but figured id ask on here before removing the pulley and trying to get a number off the old bearing. or if anyone has an old 5th gen tensioner laying around they could look at the bearing number for me. or even has found a whole replacement pulley that is identical to the oem one that works as i know this has a double roller bearing in it which is thicker then the regular idler pulleys. thanks lmk
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I used an eBay pulley last year:
(1) NEW Drive Belt Tensioner Pulley For Toyota Rav4 Lexus GS 0187-GSU45 39093 | eBay working fine so far. Upon closer examination, the OEM lower idler pulley should work fine at the tension location as well. Just remember the bolt is LH threaded.