Noisy engine bay
Noisy engine bay My engine and heads are completely rebuilt, I may have 2k-3k miles on it since the rebuild was done a year and a half ago. All belts and pulley's are new. I replaced my power steering pump bc it was screaming like banshee and my idler on my A/C bc of the same thing. The new A/C idler is shrieking again, and the pulley's in general are just noisy and not smooth sounding. My cam has some lope, and you can hear some valve-train chatter, but the pulleys make the car sound like and 80's Bonneville. What should I do?
i have this whistle that i can't figure out for the life of me where its coming from. have you tried starting the car w/o any of the belts on? i thought it was my belts but i took all of them off and it still whistled.
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If you've pin-pointed it to your pulleys/belts, especially after a rebuilt, I'd look into the alignment of those pulleys. I bet one of them is off center, either forward or back than it should be.
I assume you have localized the noise to the A/C belt by removing it? What parts did you use for the pulley replacement?
I would do the following:
- Get some pictures/diagrams of the pulley installation and dust shields and make sure yours are correct.
- Get a mechanics stethoscope and use it to fix noise
- Remove th A/C belt, fix all noises, put A/C belt back on, fix all A/C noises at that time
- Get some pictures/diagrams of the pulley installation and dust shields and make sure yours are correct.
- Get a mechanics stethoscope and use it to fix noise
- Remove th A/C belt, fix all noises, put A/C belt back on, fix all A/C noises at that time
