So I'm on the road with my brother to pull a windshield out of a car in the junkyard. He finally found one that fits. The popular auto glass shops decided the car is too old to have one. Round trip is about 160 miles of mind numbing lanes on concrete as far as the eye can see.

Changed my oil earlier and topped off all of the fluids. Tires were good and the road was clear. Heard a funny noise on the way back. No engine lights, gauges are where they needed to be. Made it home. Came back later to check to see if I could find out what it was. The serpentine belt was crazy loose. I remembered that the noise didn't change when the AC was turned on or off, alternator looked fine, water pump is tight, tensioner pulley was fuu...

Yikes!

I was able to order a new tensioner assembly from the manufacturer for about fifty bucks. Should be able to swap it out in twenty minutes or so tomorrow. Looks like the Lord was making it stay together the whole time.

The windshield they had was cracked, but my brother managed to get a lot of hard to find parts while we were there, so it was a day well spent.

Anybody else have luck like this?

What's the year make and model of your brother's car? Maybe someone here can be of help also.

Might as well get a belt and change it while you have the tensioner off. The old one might have gotten hot and stretched while it was loose

Got one.

It was just the fun part of seeing the pulley was still on the the tensioner arm, but the bearing had desintegrated and was mostly gone.

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Originally posted by .38supersig:
Did some research and found out that the windshield has a different part number than most (1 1/2 inches shorter).

Maybe you can buy one of the other windshields and have a glass shop cut it down to fit. Obviously you should find a real glass shop and ask if they can do it before spending any money.

I have on more than one occasion driven hundreds of miles with my phone on my bumper without losing it. I figure that is darn near miracle status.