Car people!!!! Need a lil help....

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Well I was finally able to change the idler pulley and that hasn't solved the problem although it did need to be replaced as it had so give to it. Pretty sure its not the tentioner so I'm thinking belt now

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Ok so everyone I work with said to just throw belt dressing on the car and I said no. Then I read to take a dry bar of soap to the teeth side of the belt. If the noise went away and came back it was the belt. Well guess what that's what happened. Gonna get a belt Monday and switch them out after work. 50 cent bar of soap solves my car problem... Gotta love it
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AQUAMONSTER said:
Ok so everyone I work with said to just throw belt dressing on the car and I said no. Then I read to take a dry bar of soap to the teeth side of the belt. If the noise went away and came back it was the belt. Well guess what that's what happened. Gonna get a belt Monday and switch them out after work. 50 cent bar of soap solves my car problem... Gotta love it
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This is incorrect.

I work in the automotive repair industry for a large shop. The belt your talking about is s serpentine belt. They ride on both the grooved side and the smooth side of the belt. Serpentine belts should never have any dressing or substance applied to them. They either work or don't. They can crack or stretch. You could also be having a tensioner issue. If the tensioner isn't moving/floating and irs seized its not auto adjusting. The belt may be fine but the tensioner isn't doing its job. I'm talking about the spring arm portion of it not the pulley itself. Also if the tensioner is weak or loose it can cause this. Again this has to do with the arm of the tensioner not just the pulley. Adding the soap may quite it for a moment but not show you the real issue. The tensioner should have a range indicator on it badically on one part it will have 2 marks that have a gap of space in the middle of them. Then on the other section of the tensioner it has another mark that should be between those two marks. If its not pretty well centered it may be bad. Serpentine belts have a rating of cracks per 1 inch length of the belt. If you look at the grooved side of the belt and can count 11 cracks or more in that inch of belt. If they stretch they should be replaced. If it were me I'd replace both the tensioner assembly and the belt. Both are pretty inexpensive and cheap insurance as they both have plenty of wear on them.

If a serpentine belt is ever making noises it's telling you something is wrong. Never use belt dressing on them. Its not like old style v belts.

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I unerstand what your saying. I'm pretty sure its not the tensioner tho. After changing the belt I will see what it does. When the car was put away last winter the car was fine and this started after taking it back out 2 weeks ago. The mechanics at my job think belt too.

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tensioners on the S197 mustangs are known to bend as well. Put a straight edge to it. ....
You can get billet ones, but they are pricey. http://www.thumpracing.com/
(they bend and brake enough for someone to run a business making high performance ones)
 
rbarn said:
tensioners on the S197 mustangs are known to bend as well. Put a straight edge to it. ....
You can get billet ones, but they are pricey. http://www.thumpracing.com/
(they bend and brake enough for someone to run a business making high performance ones)
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Yea that's too much for me especially since I'm probly trading the car in at the end of the summer for something more for my family

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