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Serpentine belt failure..
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[QUOTE="mandkole, post: 804334, member: 4630"] At Gates, our marketing guys came up with 'spin-cycle'... 1) you spin the idler pulley feeling for any stickiness. As bearings throw their grease out over time, this is usually the first thing that fails on our tensioners. 2) Then, you cycle the tensioner arm feeling for notchiness, or difficulty in rotation. Many of our competitors tensioners will quickly lose their damping and often the pivot shaft support is weak and if this breaks, it will begin to misalign the arm. This then misaligns the pulley and belt which will quickly lead to belt chirping then in extreme circumstances, fail the belt. In your case, it sounds like you damaged the tensile cord in the belt which began to kill itself over time. The radiator hose runs on the other side of the belt. Gates.com should have some tech pages on it or youtube videos. [url]http://www.youtube.com/user/GatesAutoAftermarket?feature=watch[/url] [/QUOTE]
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