Belt squeeling

[Osmosis]

I recently had an issue with my power steering pump...pulley. I noticed when I got off work, the ty would squeel like a pig for 5 minutes, then it would finally stop:squint: I put a bolt into the end of the pulley and power steering shaft, yet I still had aprox 1/8 inch of play in the pulley. Tthe 1/8 inch play was in the shaft, not in the pulley. Today, I got off work and it squeeled all the way home, 20 minutes of driving, drove me nuts! I also noticed when I got on the throttle, my volts were dropping and my AFR dropped below 17/1 and it started knocking. Once the squeeling stopped, my volts go up and my afr goes back to normal .....11.5/1 with alky

Has anyone else had this probelm with thier PS pump?

I'm not looking foward to pulling the PS pump tomorrow

 

[Osmosis]

Re: Belt squeeling

Dave,

I was thinking it was the altenator and it could be. I have a few laying around and I plan on changing that today to see if that fixes it before I fork out any cash on parts.

The reason I think it is my PS pump is that when I first purchased my ty, the pulley on the PS pump was held in by a bolt and it became loose and started to squeel. I replaced the PS pump pulley and I've had few problems with it....few. My belt would squeel ike a pig when I ran the AC only. I noticed the squeel became worse when I would run my heat recenlty. I thought it was my compressor. Then, I reached down and noticed my PS pump pulley was loose. I got a bolt and threaded it into the front of the PS pulley and the squeel stopped for 3 days. Then it retured. When I drove home from work a few days ago, it squeeled for almost 15 minutes before it stopped.

When I inspeded the altenator, it moved freeley so I don't think it's the altenator, but it could be.

 

[TYRODD]

Re: Belt squeeling

My Syclone's under hood fire was caused by the alternator seizing, and continued to be driven until the aluminum case began to melt, and drips of aluminum burned through the PS high-pressure hose. It burned to the firewall.

HOLY CRAP!

 

[Osmosis]

Re: Belt squeeling

OK. You didn't mention the "damage" at the PS pump and pulley. Sound like the pump needs attention too. Give the alt a spin with the belt off. If the bearings are failing, it will feel rough, or be noisy.



I don't understand the correlation between the pump pulley squealing, and the loss of charging output you mention in your post. Let us know what you find.

Well, there is definatly a coorelation between the belt squeel and low volts. When the belt was squeeling, my volts were really low. When the belt stopped squeeling, volts returned to normal. I'm thinking either pulley is causing a decrease of spin on my altenator. My belt was hot when I got home the other morning.

I'm planing on changing my alt first and test it for a few days and see what happens. I just hope I don't get a fire like you did:lol: I did use a stethoscope to listen for the squeel and it seemed to be coming from the ps pump, but it was hard to tell where the squeel was coming from....figures:roll: