What O Day

[BigAls87Z28]

Well, lets give a little back story to this.
For some time, the ac compressor on my Caprice has been making a lot of noise. The clutch has been constantly on and eating up gas milage on the car pretty hard core. Josh got to hear it recently. And I kept saying to myself, "I really really need to get a new compressor..."

So, Today Im leaving work, walk out ot my car, start it....no start.
This is another thing that has been happening a lot recently. So I pop the hood, jiggle cables, go to start it. fires up...but this loud screeching noise somes screaming out from the engine bay. I go out to look at it, and tis starting to SMOOOOOOKE! The belt is doing a burn out on the AC compressor pulley.
I stop the car....and start to figure out ways to get home. This figures since I have 2 days off. So I call around to get prices. I call advance, new compressor for 105 bucks, but not in stock. I call up Carquest, they have one, but for 180 bucks. Well, I need it, and couldnt wait the extra day cause no one could take me home, and I was not in the mood to walk up the parkway. So I take another guys car...a Mustang 5.0 car...and go over to carquest.
Ok, flash foward an hour or so later, I get the damn thing in, put the belt on, wash up, and head home. Make the turn to get onto Hooper ave...I hear a ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR SNAP!!
I lost power steering, battery light on, bad news bears.
Pull over, belts snapped. I call up Advance and ask them if they could deliver me a belt to me while I was in a parking lot. Well, the guy was really cool and I will write into Advance about this commending them. The guy Sean or Shawn or however you spell his name came in his own truck, in street clothes, with a belt and an install tool and helped me throw the belt in so I could be on my way.

I have always liked Advance Auto and will continue to shop there. Thanks to them, I could get back on the road. I only wish they had the compressor, it would have saved me 70 bucks! Oh well.
Long day, got home about 3 hours after I had punched out. Im exhausted...

[qwikz28]

thats a stand up guy

[69BirdX]

My Compressor bearing is shot and has been making noise...............so i just cut the belt
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Motorcycle Tires

[BigAls87Z28]

I wish I had that luxury. Sometime I like Serp belts for the ease of instaling belts, but other times....
At least now I can finally have a functional ac system now. gotta charge it with oil and r134a in the next week.
I have to start to get the car ready for inspection
Horns, Cat, and...thats it?

[maroman88]

wow i didnt no people like this were still out there!

[Tsar]

Originally Posted by maroman88

wow i didnt no people like this were still out there!

agreed.

[unstable bob gable]

Ya ever need a hand Al, ya got my number. Even if ya just need a ride home or sumthin'.

[BigAls87Z28]

Thanks Bob, but me being stuck down in Toms River would have been a hell of a drive for anyone, and I really blame myself since I have been putting it off for a while now. I have no one to blame by myself.

[WildBillyT]

That was really cool of the Advance guy to do that for you. Sucks you had to shell out for the compressor but at least you have A/C for the summer.