'Trust'

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My blower has been making a weird noise lately. When I start the car it whines, but intermittently, almost like a squeaky pulley. When it warms up it sounds fine, any ideas of what this could be? I talked to ProCharger about having to have significant tension on the blower to stop slip and they said the bearings can take it no problem, but I'm a little concerned, thoughts?

El_Diablo

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You've been over-driving it as well haven't you?

Take it off and open it up ASAP. I saw this recently in a post somewhere on another forum and it was the bearings. Catch it before it's too damaged.

'Trust'

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Nah, it is spinning at 59,000, max is 62,000.

'Trust'

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Hmm, well just talked to ProCharger, they said if it's a bearing, it will be pretty much gone quickly. This has been going on for a month and has been to the track twice and probably had 10-20 WOT pulls on the dyno/street. They suggested an idler pulley bearing, pulling that off tonight and checking it out, could be possible.

Chalk one worthless thread up for me.

BIG_MIKE2005

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Not worthless if you get it figured out & others know what to listen/watch for on theirs

LS1RedZ

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Is it like a chirp sound?

03supercobra

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Sometimes you can spray a little WD40 on the different idlers when you first start it up, and thatll let you know which one is squeaking.

01 Red WS6

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If you had the F1A this wouldn't be a problem

ChevyChad

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+1

'Trust'

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Basically yea.

So true!

LS1RedZ

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Hmm I have been hearing the same thing. Damn it!

'Trust'

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I'll pull my idler off tonight to see if thats it and let you know.

ZLEEPER

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My F1A does it on decel sometimes... Brand new set up. I know this doesn't help, but you are not alone in chasing the mysterious squeak.

kp

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The idler bearings go bad all the time, especially when you tension the crap out of the belt.

'Trust'

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Well the idler seems a little stiff, if I spun it with my finger it will spin about 1 - 1 1/2 revolutions. Doesn't seem right to me, thoughts? Also, I did found out that wasn't the sole squeak. Took the blower off and started the car, same thing, I have a culprit somewhere.

kp

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They are sealed bearings so they wont just free spin, if it feels gritty or rough then they are bad. They are just GM A/C compressor bearings and easy to get and change.

Lot of other pulleys to squeak, take the main belt off and try it for a bit to make sure its from the front, it wont hurt to run it without the belt for a minute or so if the engine is cool.

conan

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Do you still have the A/C? If so spin the clutch with the belt off. Did you spin the spring tensioner pully for the serpentine belt?

'Trust'

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Yea, I thought about taking the serpentine belt off, and a/c belt off to see and leave the blower hooked up. I'll give that a shot.

laughatrice

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Interesting I've got an F1A (fbody) and the idler pulley has been acting up every since I changed the belt last week. It ate the new belt at the track swaped it again with less tension and made a 3 passes at the track 4 WOT pulls at the dyno and then the idler failed. I haven't seen it yet but I from what I heard it was fairly dramatic and actually stalled the engine smoke and rubber everywhere.

I'm assuming the idler pulley seized up I had been tightening the **** out of it lately. I was told the same thing as you regarding tension worst you'll do is f the belt up unless you happen to bend the idler pulley . I ordered a whole new idler pulley assembly from procharger plus one of the goodyear belts from summit (not suppose to stretch as much). I believe I caused this when I tightened the belt the weak link is the idler pulley I think it gets bent.

EPP

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FYI. I sell the idler pulley with the bearing on my website at this link. http://www.exoticperformanceplus.com...html?item=1497 Bob