No, I'm not gaining weight back. Becky called me this afternoon and said her Explorer was hard to turn, the A/C stopped working, and the battery light was on. Pretty simple diagnosis; either the car had exploded, or the serpentine belt was slipping or had fallen off.
When I got home, I popped the hood, and, sure enough, the belt was quite loose. It had slipped off of the belt tensioner. As I pushed the belt back onto the tensioner, the tensioner pulley broke off into my hand. The bearing had frozen, and the plastic pulley had melted from the inside out. Whoa.
I went to the AutoZone and picked up a new tensioner and belt. They were incredibly busy, but I was happy to be able to get the parts I needed. Removing the old tensioner proved to be difficult, as the fan blocked all but the tiniest access to the bolt. After noticing I had better access to both the belt and the tensioner from the bottom, I got it off and the new one on.
I'm really glad the explosion diagnosis was incorrect.
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