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02-21-2009, 04:29 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Sewell, NJ
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Belt just fell off ???
Driving back from playing some pool last night and all of the sudden i lose power steering? I had a new girl in the car with me and the last thing i needed was for something to fail on the car. I only had a few city blocks to go to get back to her place but before i could get to the next light the car dies. Fires right back up and makes it two more lights before i notice my temp rising and then it dies again right outside Finnegan's on spring garden (if your familiar with the city). Had to push the car to a spot and it was too dark to see what had failed and i just wanted to get back to her place if u know what i mean. So we got a cab and i went back to the car this morning.
Some how the belt fell off and thats all that was wrong but i just dont see how the belt would just fall off. drained the battery. The belt is fairly new, has no cracks it it or nothing. Put the belt back on and it seems really tight, got a jump from a very nice guy who noticed the hood up and cables out and drove home just fine.
any ideas how that happened?
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02-21-2009, 04:39 PM
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Old belt? Bad tensioner? Both?
Any burning smell? Maybe something seized? I assume this is your 4th gen.
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02-21-2009, 04:53 PM
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Usually I wait until I get to the girls house before I throw my belt off... 
You have stock pulleys? It just may be a case of a bad day. My friend lost the belt on his 87 Camaro once and I'm not sure how.
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02-21-2009, 05:12 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Somerset, NJ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by deadtrend1
Usually I wait until I get to the girls house before I throw my belt off... |
+1.
this happened to my buddy a while back, he had an old belt. (talking about the car now)
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Last edited by madness410; 02-21-2009 at 05:12 PM.
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02-21-2009, 05:18 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Sewell, NJ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BonzoHansen
Old belt? Bad tensioner? Both?
Any burning smell? Maybe something seized? I assume this is your 4th gen.
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Yea the 4th gen. Belt isnt that old, no cracks at all in it. I picked up a new one just for the hell of it though. I hope the tensioner int going, never had to replace that yet.
no smell at all
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Originally Posted by deadtrend1
Usually I wait until I get to the girls house before I throw my belt off... |
haha nice one
yea stock pulleys
Last edited by usp55; 02-21-2009 at 05:20 PM.
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02-21-2009, 05:29 PM
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11 second club / Moderator
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Originally Posted by usp55
.... I hope the tensioner int going, never had to replace that yet
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tensioner is mad easy to replace
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02-21-2009, 05:50 PM
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Any of the pulleys look rusty? Do they all spin freely?
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02-21-2009, 07:27 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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the car got jealous lol
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02-21-2009, 09:52 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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Originally Posted by chrisfrom nj
the car got jealous lol
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your just having one hell of a week. 
leaving my car that looks that good in the city, would have me nervous as hell.
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02-22-2009, 12:04 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Old Bridge, NJ
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I would change tensioner before belt(if the belt in decent shape). tensioner might be sticky. Spin all pulleys and listen if they make noise.
If you jack up the car probably you can take the tensioner right out from underneath.
Good Luck.
Alex.
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02-22-2009, 10:04 AM
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Ayatollah of Rock N Rolla / Admin
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Triple-A
I would change tensioner before belt(if the belt in decent shape). tensioner might be sticky. Spin all pulleys and listen if they make noise.
If you jack up the car probably you can take the tensioner right out from underneath.
Good Luck.
Alex.
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I agree. If it's a relatively new belt then I'd start with the tensioner.
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02-23-2009, 04:35 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Sewell, NJ
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it was tensioner
driving to work today the belt fell off again, this time i could clearly see the misalignment of the belt due to the tensioner being completely cracked where the pulley itself meets the spring assembly inside. Managed to hold itself together for the remainder of the ride to work and then home this afternoon.
20 bucks, 10 min, and two screws and the new on is on
thanks guys
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02-23-2009, 04:49 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Cherry Hill
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Quote:
Originally Posted by usp55
it was tensioner
driving to work today the belt fell off again, this time i could clearly see the misalignment of the belt due to the tensioner being completely cracked where the pulley itself meets the spring assembly inside. Managed to hold itself together for the remainder of the ride to work and then home this afternoon.
20 bucks, 10 min, and two screws and the new on is on
thanks guys
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It just remind me Transformers movie! U know the part where the kid met the new girl and he starts havn problems with his "new" ride.. Are you sure your car didn't take off by its self that night and defend the human race! 
Last edited by GREZ28; 02-23-2009 at 04:50 PM.
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02-23-2009, 04:54 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GREZ28
It just remind me Transformers movie! U know the part where the kid met the new girl and he starts havn problems with his "new" ride.. Are you sure your car didn't take off by its self that night and defend the human race! |
haha that was good very true statment though it does remind me of the movie lol
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