my fucking tbelt wont shut up!!!!
 

so, ive tried everything that i can think of to get my t-bet to stop screaming at me. replaced the belt, tensioner pulley. there were rub marks on the tensioner pulley like it had stopped moving and the belt had rubbed a groove on it. theres no oil or moisture on the belt either

im just getting over my annual spring allergies so im sure im not thinking 100%. but is there anything to look for when the belt squeels at you.

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throw a little brake fluid on there, if that doesn't take care of the noise then you have a pulley making noise. :)

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Or it is just too tight.

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so. put brake fluid on the belt or the pulley or both. i always thought that moisture was the enemy.

also didnt think that the bolt being overtightened could effect how the tensioner pulley spun.

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Dont put brake fluid on rubber.

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dont put brake fluid on it!
its prob to tight, most people make that mistake on T belts

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drrr. sorry, ive been highly medicated lately. didnt realize that he meant the paint-stripping damn near eat through your skin brake fluid. glad i just passed out earlier...

but as far as it being to tight, the belts still a bit loose. which now makes me wonder.......ive got the tensioner shifted all the way. the damned belt should be tight as hell. could i have the wrong size tensioner? ive got a shitty d15 crx motor. got the car early january and havent had the time to fool with too much.

the belt is the right one though. just bought it and just check the box again

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jesus christ just put brake fluid on it....brake fluid is hygroscopic (it absorbs moisture) my (GM master tech) boss does it all the time. :) If the noise stays then you either have a pulley making noise or the belt is to tight (causing a pulley to make noise). Just put like 1/2 cap full of brake fluid SLOWLY on the belt, if any splashes on the paint just wash it off.

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take the timing cover off and put the crnk pully back on, hit the pullys with some wd-40 while its running. if it stops then its that ppully. if it doesnt help get some belt dressing and spray the belt with that. if u still have the problem its not them things

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brake fluid will eat that belt up >:D

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A light shot of PB or WD40 will help the squeak, but also attract lots of dirt. The tbelt also doesn't need to be super ------- tight. How much deflection can you get out of it by pressing firmly on the middle of the straight side?

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dont worry. i didnt put any brake fluid on it. dont have any anyways. but as far as the belt being too tight. its the opposite. it looks too loose. i have over an inch of play on the straight side. the belt makes a fapping sound when it runs. thats why im wondering if the tensioner pulley is the wrong pulley. its moved to tighten all the way and thats how its sitting right now.

but i did spray some pb blaster on all the pulleys. fixed it for a bit then the squeel(not squeak) slowly started to come back. usually it just starts out of know where and i cant even think its so damned loud. since it slowly started to scream it sounded like it was coming from the alty pulley more than anything. which makes since because the last owner replaced that belt right before he gave it to me. said the old belt broke. not sure if the old belt was just old or what

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Yeah dude that's possible. I know when I ripped my B7 out of my car and put my built Z6 in the Z6 had a different tensioner arm and the location of the spring bolt (where the tensioner spring hooks to) was placed differently. Iirc the Z6 spring bolt was outside the loop of the belt and the B7 spring bolt was inside. It might be the other way around, but I know the tensioners definitely had different length arms.

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yea. the tensioner spring was pretty slack. it more or less just hangs there on the spring bolt. but it is outside the loop. i remember on my old z6 civic the spring was pretty much a snug fit.

but like i said. im wondering if its not the alternator. when the squeel slowly came back it sounded like it came from there. im gonna spray it down with some pb and try again tomorrow. hopefully i dont have to buy a new alternator

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you dont even need the spring, pry the tentioner over with a apry bar amd lock it down

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thats pretty much what i did. the damned pulley is as far as it can go. thats why im thinking its the wrong one. the guy that owned it before didnt really know ---- about cars. im finding half-assed ---- all over the place. some old guy that lives out in the country. im thinking he may work at or know someone in a junkyard. guy told me the only thing wrong with the car is that it needs a seal replaced between the block and tranny. turns out one of the big ass bolts was barely screwed in. im just trying to fix this car up and sell for a profit. buddy of mine has a mk3 supra hes wanting to sell me for $800. HG is fine, needs new powersteering pump. so i just want to get this car to sound like its running right

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Is it possible you have the wrong belt? The B7 belt has 2 more teeth than the Z6. If you really have that tensioner tightened all the way there really isn't much else you can tighten, ya know? Even if it's the wrong tensioner unless the diameters of the tensioners are different the place where they are mounted stays the same, so the arm length wouldn't matter.

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i shouldnt have the wrong belt, i just bought it and rechecked the box a bit ago before i threw it out. it said for d15. if its wrong then it got miss boxed. which i dont doubt. i once got a starter for a like a d15 i think when i had my z6 car. numbers on the box matched up with z6, just not the product

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dont know were u guys get your info from but brake fluid will NOT eat rubber. when its mixed with petroleum based products it will eat rubber and expand it. think about it your master cylinder cap is sealed with rubber and the fluid doesnt eat that. petro. based prodducts on the other hand will eat rubber so if you want to listen to those other people and put wd-40 or pb blaster or belt dressing on thereor whatever they said good luck.

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Well PB was intended to soften seals and make them seal again, as well as for breaking rusted parts loose. That's why I said a small spray if needed, but brake fluid as far as I know will be fine.

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yeh itll make them seal because petro based lube expands rubber but apparently alot of people dont know that

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you guys are idiots, brake hoses are rubber ::)

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ok. now that im not sick as ---- and heavily medicated. i went to out to tackle this problem and found out i was the idiot. tensioner pulley was in the wrong direction, on the two medal arms behind the pulley, you know, one bends forward and connects to the spring, the other one is supposed to slip over a knob on the block. well it wasnt slipped over the knob. so i fix that. put everything back together, let it run for a bit, no squeel at all so far.

it has a stumble every once and awhile but im sure that i just need to adjust the dizzy. problem is that one bolt is stripped into a complete circle. ill figure that out some other time. im just trying to get this bastard to run right and then sell.....

need to fund my next project. turbo i-6 here i come

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Glad that you fingered her out. Best of luck to you.

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appreciate it... from now on no more working on cars when im sick.

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vise grips ftw