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    Thank you all for your opinions.I do tend to think it may be what machinegunsquid mentioned.Its definately coming from under the hood.Im wondering however when you say tensioner are you talking timing chain tensioner?(i assume all cars have a timing chain?)My xterra had two tensioners that went bad right after the bad timing chain had to be replaced(truck was only 3 years old at the time)
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    he would have been talking about the belt tensioner, remove the belts and spin the pulleys, check the tensioner marks to see if they are still good and lining up.

    they are the pulleys you need to turn to remove the belts, its a 14 mm socket i think.

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