spyderdrifter
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- Jul 11, 2009
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I finally got the chance the other day to attempt yet another failed test drive. This time, I drove just outside of my apartment complex and the alternator started screaming, or at least, I'm assuming it was the alt, since the screaming was from that side of the car. I did an illegal U-turn in the middle of the road and got the car back to my garage as quick as I could, was only a couple minutes tops. Got it parked, and let it run for maybe another 30 seconds. The noise never went away until I shut the engine off.
Since I was pissed off about it, I left it alone until today. My assesment of the screeching is it sounded like the alt belt was too tight and potentially messed up the alt pulley bearing. I went back into my garage a little bit ago to grab my spare phone charger and decided just to glance at the pulleys and alt. I pushed down on the power steering belt and alt belt to check the deflection, purposely to see if the alt belt was in fact too tight. To my surprise, I was able to rotate the power steering pulley with ease, which in turn rotated the water pump. The alt belt stayed stationary so I checked down below at the crank pulley. The alt belt is actually loose as s#!t but doesn't spin with the water pump, possibly like it's stuck on something, which now that I think of that, I'm gonna have to go check....
In the meantime, anyone have any thoughts on this? I'm confused by it. I know before I took the car out to drive, the alt belt spun with everything else and there was no screeches until it got a load put on it. Here's a pic and video...
Belts - YouTube
Since I was pissed off about it, I left it alone until today. My assesment of the screeching is it sounded like the alt belt was too tight and potentially messed up the alt pulley bearing. I went back into my garage a little bit ago to grab my spare phone charger and decided just to glance at the pulleys and alt. I pushed down on the power steering belt and alt belt to check the deflection, purposely to see if the alt belt was in fact too tight. To my surprise, I was able to rotate the power steering pulley with ease, which in turn rotated the water pump. The alt belt stayed stationary so I checked down below at the crank pulley. The alt belt is actually loose as s#!t but doesn't spin with the water pump, possibly like it's stuck on something, which now that I think of that, I'm gonna have to go check....
In the meantime, anyone have any thoughts on this? I'm confused by it. I know before I took the car out to drive, the alt belt spun with everything else and there was no screeches until it got a load put on it. Here's a pic and video...
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Belts - YouTube
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