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YOUR RESEARCHBelt blew up one block from home
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Replace po said
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Performed · outcome unconfirmed · Original poster
The PO said that the belt was changed out 10k ago.
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Suspected cause · Original poster
I then thought about the type of noise that I heard and realized it was probably the belt.
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Suggestion · Original poster
Hopefully the water pump didn't go as well- it was replaced 30k ago.
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Suggestion · Original poster
I hope that I can find my 24mm socket for replacing the belt!
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Suggestion
Not much is simpler then changing a serpentine belt with our cars, lucky you were close to home when it came apart.
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Always an adventure- my better half and i were coming back from a nice after- work dinner and drive with the top down, when one block from home, the polyrib belt started to go. At first, I thought it might be the IMS bearing giving way, so I shut it down immediately. I then thought about the type of noise that I heard and realized it was probably the belt. I started it up again and basically coasted home. We ended up pushing the car into the garage (in business clothes) because I didn't want to take any chances.
You know that your better half is a keeper when she volunteers to help push the car into the garage in heels!
Hopefully the water pump didn't go as well- it was replaced 30k ago. I'm off to get a belt now.
Anyone know how to tell if a car has had the update for
TSB (10/99 1379)
? I have had vibrations like in the TSB, and I bet that is why the belt went...
Did you read the TSB? If you look around the oil pump/coolant housing area to the right of the cam pulley it should be very simple to deduce.
Or depending on your car's MY and engine SN the above TSB might be moot (also spelled out in the TSB).
If you are a contributing member (
well
worth it) at renntech.org here is the link:
http://www.renntech.org/forums/files/getdownload/137-145carrera-damaged-drive-beltpdf/
Go it changed out with little hassle. The belt was completely shredded and some of the strands got wrapped in the windings of the alternator. It also destroyed a vacuum line when it went. Runs like a top now!
