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anybody have ps belt probs?
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 7:07 am
by lil red one
Ever since I switched to the shorter a/c delete belt the belt pops off at high rpms.If you look at it even as it sits idling you can see the belt wobbling if you look at it dead strait.Had the stocker on there for 100,000 miles and never had this prob.
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:29 am
by 71Roadrunner
I had a problem with my stock ps belt when I hit the rev limiter. At first it must have simply gotten rolled over in the pulley grove, because it was fine for two day and then all of the sudden I had really patchy and difficult steering. I pulled over to check it out and the belt was laying there in the engine compartment, it didn't break, it just came off.
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:04 pm
by 05 SXT 5spd
71Roadrunner wrote:I had a problem with my stock ps belt when I hit the rev limiter. At first it must have simply gotten rolled over in the pulley grove, because it was fine for two day and then all of the sudden I had really patchy and difficult steering. I pulled over to check it out and the belt was laying there in the engine compartment, it didn't break, it just came off.
1G or 2G? V-groove (1 older style 'belt') or serpentine (multi-grooved)?
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:06 pm
by 71Roadrunner
It is a V groove and it happened to my '99 Neon R/T.
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:34 pm
by AlexSuave23
Both sound like a case of too much slack to me. If you can see it "wobbling" at idle, then you should try to take care of it before driving. Sometimes a pry bar or rubber mallet can help persuade the belt to get a little tighter.
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:59 pm
by lil red one
yea by the way it's a first gen with the v groove belt and I used my ratchets first the 1/4 then the 1/2 then the full inch wedged underneath then yanking up on it till it wouldn't go up any farther.Is there a better way?
Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 9:39 pm
by 05 SXT 5spd
lil red one wrote:yea by the way it's a first gen with the v groove belt and I used my ratchets first the 1/4 then the 1/2 then the full inch wedged underneath then yanking up on it till it wouldn't go up any farther.Is there a better way?
Crow bar or pry bar fit?
Oh yea, you got stock or UDP on it? That might make a diff, but im not sure.
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:32 am
by lil red one
stock
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:34 am
by Vinny
Not sure which cars this applies to, but the PS pump on my '97 DOHC has a square hole to accommodate a 1/2" drive breaker bar to use for leverage, I don't recall my '98 SOHC having such a thing though.
If anyone needs a belt I have a bunch, new and used.