Timing belt tensioner
OEM part numberMD362861Order this one
Community consensus. This entry is not backed by factory documentation — treat its values and steps as a starting point, not as if they came from the factory manual.
Consenso de la comunidad. Esta entrada no se apoya en documentación de fábrica — tome los valores y los pasos como punto de partida, no como si vinieran del manual de fábrica.
The hydraulic tensioner that holds the timing belt tight. It is the part that decides whether a good belt stays a good belt: when the tensioner leaks down, the belt goes slack, and on an interference engine a belt that jumps teeth ends the engine rather than stranding you. Nobody who has the front of this engine apart should put the old tensioner back — the specialist who assembles the kit for this generation lists it with the belt, the idler and the water pump as things that come out together and go back together, and the access is the expensive half of the job. The number, the fitment and the count come from the Montero specialist's own catalogue page, cited below — a parts catalogue is good evidence for what a part number is and what it fits, and it is not factory literature, so read every figure on this page as the catalogue's claim rather than as a service-manual specification.
Sources
- Luso Overland — MONTERO Gen3 Timing Belt Tensioner (MD362861): Genuine Mitsubishi part number, fitment table and quantity per vehicleVendor catalogue
- Luso Overland — MONTERO Gen3 OEM Timing Belt Kit: the tensioner listed among the parts the specialist replaces togetherVendor catalogue
- YoshiParts — Mitsubishi OEM timing belt tensioner adjuster MD362861: part number, description and Pajero/Montero V65W (3rd Gen, 1999-2006) fitment, independent of the Montero specialist's catalogue aboveVendor catalogue