Why does my serpentine tensioner look different than everyone else's?

Here is everyone else's...



And here is mine (attached)...

It lines up, and pushes "down" or toward the alternator. So it should be OK...

 

looks fine to me...

did you try putting the belt on? mabey once you put it on it will look more like the top

 

I tried to put the belt on, but it went straight from the crank pulley to the alternator without touching the water pump. I was trying to use this setup...but his goes OVER the tensioner, not under it.



So i just installed the A/C compressor to set it up like the first pic in this thread.

 

that one has to be a different tentioner. it would apply tention from the opisite direction the the stock mustang one would. it would take research to figure out what they used. some time in a salvage yard playing with tentioners would be the way to figure it out or ask the person whos car that is. it also may be know on the mustang sites.

 

I ended up with the AC compressor on, and now the tensioner is hitting my upper radiator hose...

All these other guys are using a hose that goes up and over the alternator. Also looks like a different neck on the thermostat housing. I wished I would have seen that about 10 minutes ago before I went to the store for the bigger belt.

At least I got the belt and pulleys all set up. Still need to wire it up with 6 gauge wire and 150A breaker. Not sure how far into that I will get this weekend.

I am done for the day.

 

You can use the replacement idler for the A/C compressor everyone sells for this to get the belt wrapped around the W/P pulley. You'll also need the serpentine 90* thermostat housing to reroute the upper hose to go with it.

 

It would all look cleaner though by going to a std rotation pump and timing cover. The March kit I have does this (std rotation serpentine system for the W/P-Alternator-crank pulley)

 

The pulley applies pressure grooves to grooves or flat back side to a pulley that has no grooves.

 

This might sound dumb but could one be for standard rotation and the other for reverse rotation water pumps?
clint

 

The smooth pulley was used on the reverse pump. The grooved pulley is a std rotation unit.

 

Yeah that upper hose came off of a fuel injected car, looks like the one I am running with the mustang setup I have on my car right now.