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Whirring/Bearing Noise When Ru - 12/22/2003 10:47:50 AM    KaZsMiR   Posts: 12 Joined: 12/22/2003 From: United States Status: offline Greetings...  One of my first posts here...  I'm fairly certain I know what the problem is, but wanted to ask first just to make sure, see if anyone else has had this problem. I've got a 2002 4.7L 4x2 1500 Quad Cab.  I live in Virginia Beach and we just had Hurricane Isabel a few months back.  At the time I was living in Chesapeake (an area known for flooding) and had gone back to check on things.  While trying to get out there I'd drove through some water trying to find a way out there (there are only 3 roads you can take, and the first two were flooded out).  It only got up to the bumper on the truck, but I heard the alternator belt squeal a few times.  After having driven through the water, the truck developed a low whir...  sounds kinda like a bearing going bad.  It speeds up with the motor as I rev it getting a little bit higher pitched.  At first it went away when the truck warmed up, but now its there fairly constantly.  I believe its the serpentine belt tensioner as its rather low on the engine and definitely would have been submerge in water.  I'm guessing I got water in the bearing and caused it to start failing.  I was just going to buy a new OEM belt and Tensioner (~$100) and replace them.  Truck just rolled 30k miles.  Thoughts?  Could it be anything else?  Should I bother having it checked by the dealer, or just replace it myself?  (I'm mechanically inclined, I work on Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbos in my spare time...  my hobby).  So changing it out isn't an issue...  I was just curious about whether it might be something else other than the tensioner that's whirring... Thanks! KaZsMiR37977.4508912037 Post #: 1

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