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Started back in March, thought we had it fixed, now it's started again.
We had the tensioner, idler pully, and belt replaced, when the idler pully was chirping. After the replacement, the belt started popping off every week or so. 5 times. Finally noted that the crank shaft pully was wobbling, and had that replaced as well (wow, that one was expensive!). Problem seemed solved by the time we hit May of this year. Drove ok the rest of May and early June.
Early June, the alternator died. had it replaced, which included putting the belt back on again. Didn't do much driving in June/July as we were out of town a lot.
3 weeks ago, the belt popped off again. At $100 each time we have to put this back on, it's getting expensive!! had it put back on, they didn't see anything causing it.
Tonight, popped back off again. The biggest worry to me is how it almost instantly overheats when the belt comes off, because the water pump is run by the belt. Tonight, it got very hot when it happened, because it took a couple minutes to find a safe spot to get off the road, and the "engine temperature critical" warning came on.
What on earth can be causing this to happen? I am starting to wish we had just let the old pulleys keep on chirping away.
We had the tensioner, idler pully, and belt replaced, when the idler pully was chirping. After the replacement, the belt started popping off every week or so. 5 times. Finally noted that the crank shaft pully was wobbling, and had that replaced as well (wow, that one was expensive!). Problem seemed solved by the time we hit May of this year. Drove ok the rest of May and early June.
Early June, the alternator died. had it replaced, which included putting the belt back on again. Didn't do much driving in June/July as we were out of town a lot.
3 weeks ago, the belt popped off again. At $100 each time we have to put this back on, it's getting expensive!! had it put back on, they didn't see anything causing it.
Tonight, popped back off again. The biggest worry to me is how it almost instantly overheats when the belt comes off, because the water pump is run by the belt. Tonight, it got very hot when it happened, because it took a couple minutes to find a safe spot to get off the road, and the "engine temperature critical" warning came on.
What on earth can be causing this to happen? I am starting to wish we had just let the old pulleys keep on chirping away.