2G FML Alternator belt came off.

[banichulo]

So its a rainy day in Boston kinda miserable, but am happy cause its Friday just had my last class of the day, and i have the day off from work. its all good till i pull out of the parking lot at my school and i hear a noise sounded kinda like a bump, i look at my dash and my battery light and e-brake light is on am like wtf, thinking that i had stalled or something and then i feel that my steering wheel feels real tight am like great there goes my power steering and alternator. so i had to drive all the way home with no alternator and the temperature needle as high as it can go. FML! ANY FEED BACK ### am really considering in selling my car so if your in the area an are interested let me know

 

[knochgoon24]

Ummm... get new accessory belts. It's a simple fix. Do them all at once.

Driving with the temp needle pegged was stupid though. You risk warping the head, blowing gaskets, and blowing hoses when you do that. There's a reason why that gauge is there and a reason why all those warning lights lit up.

I would have called a friend to bum a ride off of to pick up the new belts. I think you only need a 12mm socket and a 12mm wrench to replace all of them.

 

[DSM_PWR]

x2 Never drive with the temps pegging...

Just replace the belt and done... its a simple task

 

[90moneypit]

Sometimes it's not an option to leave the car, I've been caught with a thrown belt in a cell phone dead zone late at night and MILES from civilization. It took me forever to limp/rest/limp between temp spikes and it still damaged my head gasket. The culprit was the bolt holding my alternator pulley onto the alternator had sheared off! Talk about a one in a million chance... The point is, don't beat up on the guy for driving it, it's already been done and you can't talk it back through time.

Before selling the car, you may want to put the new belt(s) back on, burp your coolant system since it probably puked a good deal of it out, and see where you're at then. Depending on how long and how far you drove it, you may get lucky. If so, count yourself fortunate and try not to make the same mistake twice! A word of advice is to carefully adjust the belt tension to lessen the chance of it happening again. The belt will stretch a little bit over the next month or two and the trick is to not have it too loose OR too tight.

 

[brian9397gsx]

ive got you beat. when i bought my car it was missing the upper timing belt cover guess where my alt belt went when it decided to fly off. found it wrapped in my crank pulley. you didnt have it that bad you hopefully didnt make a bad situation worse.

 

[JEFFREYCASTGSX]

Are you serious? It will take 15 min fix your car and 15 dollars to replace, if you decide to sell it then be prepared to begin seling a lot of cars. Come on man you can't just give up like that, take a deep breath and go to your car and FIX IT.

 

[banichulo]

i know it was stupid to drive the car but i was like 20min away from home and had no other way of getting home. i love my car but lately everything has been going wrong. i installed a new belt and now it screeches really loud when i turn the car on and as i drive i can hear the pulley making a ticking noise

 

[knochgoon24]

Do all the pulleys spin freely with the belts off?

 

[banichulo]

so another rainy day in boston #### i hate the rain shit always goes bad in the rain my belt came off again great. i go to firestone to have it re-install they tell me my harmonic balancer is broken great $300 parts and laborWTF

 

[talontsi1225]

Hey bud thats def. a really easy fix. Good thing the timing belt didn't break

 

[banichulo]

i bought the balancer and installed it myself i know its an easy fix but i just never have time to work on my car so i try to get everything done by the pros the car runs better then ever now and i changed my mine of getting rid of it, well that is till something else breaks

 

[twizdt]

im having the same problem i think. TOnight my alternator belt was screeching then when the screeching went away i had no power steering and the same lights were on in the dash. Im having the over heating issue to. I have the power steering belt still on. My pulleys are not turning. Will that fix when i get a new alternator belt on? Thanks for any replies.

 

[KadieTSi]

You're going to need a lot more patience to own a DSM..

You're giving up and freaking out about the tiniest issues.

I was decelerating from a small pull a few weeks ago and hit a bump on the highway and it knocked my alternator down and was slipping badly - about fell off.

Pulled off on the side of the road, I keep a socket wrench with 10mm 12mm and 14mm sockets in my car with me along with those sizes regular wrench. The little bolt thing that you use to tighten/loosen your alternator, the bolt that goes through the little indent in it to pull the alternator tight had jumped over the indent and was letting the alternator belt hang loose. I slipped the alternator belt off and pushed up the alternator more and put the bolt in the indent again. Slipped the belt on and pushed the alternator down and put the bolt through and tightened it.

Took me about 2 minutes on the side of the road.

I could even of driven home probably and done it but why when its such an easy fix.

Don't give up so easily or you'll be disappointed a lot in your life

 

[twizdt]

i know how to put an alternator belt on. Thanks.

 

[KadieTSi]

i know how to put an alternator belt on. Thanks.

I was speaking to op, or I would of quoted your post.
Thanks for comprehending.

 

[gusu]

I can make you a video of how to do it and upload it to youtube. Seriously..

 

[90moneypit]

i know how to put an alternator belt on. Thanks.

If you know how to put an alternator belt on then you would also know that it is also driving your water pump AND the other pulley that drives your power steering. If you knew that then you wouldn't have posted the question. Don't jump someone when YOU are hijacking a thread and they elect to respond to the original posting and not yours.

Show some clown love and use the search button.

 

[IHeartMyHonda]

i had a problem on my 97 where i kept throwing the alt belt at higher rpm. turned out to be crankwalk. the crank would move so much that the belt would start jumping ribs. probably not your problem though

 

[twizdt]

i apologize for my outburst. Just get frustrated with things. i have changed the belt just never really thought about the other pulley.

 

[wilfred3]

I need to replace my alternator belt on my 1996 2g with a 2.0. Non turbo. Can someone please explain how I remove the belt and adjust the tension? I know how to remove the alternator, but the belt is behind another belt. And I don't know what to do to adjust the tension. Could I get some pictures?

 

[pmillerlite]

I need to replace my alternator belt on my 1996 2g with a 2.0. Non turbo. Can someone please explain how I remove the belt and adjust the tension? I know how to remove the alternator, but the belt is behind another belt. And I don't know what to do to adjust the tension. Could I get some pictures?

Happened to have my Haynes manual handy. Here you go

 

[wilfred3]

Happened to have my Haynes manual handy. Here you go

Besides a self serve junk yard is there a store I could buy the adjustment bolts in this image?

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