Problem after the track today.
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Problem after the track today. Went to Lapeer today and didn't run what I would have liked to run due the crappy track conditions and 30 mph headwind. Ran a 12.52 @113 mph. On the way home, decided to jump on it on a back road and after hearing a flapping like sound, the check guages light came on. Started looking and saw the volt meter was below 13 and then looked at the temp guage and it was climbing like a rocket. Shut it down quickly. My son was watching autotap and the temp hit 264. Coasted over opened the hood and water was boiling out of the radiator inlet. No belt. Started looking down and green fluid was coming out of the bottom air conditioner hose. No a/c belt either. The hose was right up against the pulley on the air conditioner. It looks like the rubbing of the a/c hose put fluid on the serpintine belt which just shredded. The a/c belt was nowhere to be found. Found the serpintine belt in shreds. Anybody have any other ideas and did I catch it quick enough to not hurt the engine?
Sounds like you did catch it at a good time. I think the serpantine belt was breaking quickly and that might be the cause for everything. I would check for holes and all of the hoses, check the battery to see if any of that crap got on it, check your plugs and wires, check your headers to see if they got any of the crap on them, obviously replace the belt and perhaps the pully. Lastly, I would check to see if the radiator has any damage to it and to check the resevoir to see if it has a whole in it. Good luck!
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Originally Posted by Gloveperson
Sounds like you did catch it at a good time. I think the serpantine belt was breaking quickly and that might be the cause for everything. I would check for holes and all of the hoses, check the battery to see if any of that crap got on it, check your plugs and wires, check your headers to see if they got any of the crap on them, obviously replace the belt and perhaps the pully. Lastly, I would check to see if the radiator has any damage to it and to check the resevoir to see if it has a whole in it. Good luck!
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Originally Posted by Gloveperson
any chance the belt was a poor made one or when it was put it, it was put in incorrectly?
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I hope this shows up.This is what remains of the belts.
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Originally Posted by Gloveperson
A little small, but looks like it is on correct. I find it hard to understand a belt just melting like that, even if you were doing hot laps. Were the tensioners backwards or something 
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People do throw belts, the spring tensioner is a bit weak
if you have any wobble or RPM ripple. There are higher-
wall tensioners out there, some with fixed rather than
spring loaded.
if you have any wobble or RPM ripple. There are higher-
wall tensioners out there, some with fixed rather than
spring loaded.
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Originally Posted by Gloveperson
Was the inside of the belt or the outside of the belt rough and torn up?
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I got the new serpantine belt on this morning and started the car. Let it warm up and it started fine and idled fine. Took it for a short drive and everything seems okay. Hopefully all is well and nothing else is broke. I don't think it got hurt by the temp that it got to. I'd still like to know what happened. The upper and lower tension pulleys for the a/c are shot. So I still don't know what caused this. Anyway, it seems alright.
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Originally Posted by Another_User
I nearly threw my belt (halfway off) just messing around a few days after my cam install. Now I run my adjustable tensioner, and run it as hard as I like. No problems!
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Where do you get an adjustable tensioner? And like I said, I don't know what happened here. Did the a/c belt come off first and cause the serpantine belt to destroy itself? What caused the pulleys to get destroyed? Did the serpantine belt come apart (remember it was only a month old) and then take off the a/c belt. I just don't know what happened.
Sounds like you got it shut down in time. That tow truck driver didn't like us driving it up there did he?HEHE. I think the a/c line rubbed through and when it started leaking it probably froze the belt. I believe thats why the a/c idler looked like that. When you felt the freon coming out it was mostly dye and oil but when it first started leaking it would have been very cold and would have froze the belt. When that belt broke it most likely took out the serp belt because it it behind it or at least moved the serp out a couple rips and then it would have destroyed itself
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Sounds like you got it shut down in time. That tow truck driver didn't like us driving it up there did he?HEHE. I think the a/c line rubbed through and when it started leaking it probably froze the belt. I believe thats why the a/c idler looked like that. When you felt the freon coming out it was mostly dye and oil but when it first started leaking it would have been very cold and would have froze the belt. When that belt broke it most likely took out the serp belt because it it behind it or at least moved the serp out a couple rips and then it would have destroyed itself
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I don't know if this has anything to do with what happened last sunday, but when I got the car started there is now a loud knocking sound coming from the water pump area when the car is cold. It never did this before and I haven't been able to pinpoint it just yet but it sounds like it's coming from the waterpump or from that general vicinity. It runs fine. I've started the car and drove it twice since last sunday and both times when I start the car i hear this echoy type of knocking. Anybody have any ideas as to what this could be?