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Apr 27, 2014 | 02:52 PM

no01k

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Belt churp/squeal

Cleaned pulleys, new gator backs, harmonic balancer not it woobly....What can it be ?

Apr 27, 2014 | 03:20 PM

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any of the idler pulleys loose or have a wobble to them?

Apr 27, 2014 | 07:25 PM

guido7834

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I just replaced my squeaky AC idler pulley. I found the squeak by using a length of hose held to my ear to determine where it was coming from. New pulley and belts (gates) and no squeak.

Apr 28, 2014 | 09:55 AM

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I can put water on Surpentine and it gets quiet/have even used soap and it gets quiet.

May 5, 2014 | 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by no01k

I can put water on Surpentine and it gets quiet/have even used soap and it gets quiet.

Just went through this.

Typically, if introducing something to the belt and it quiets it up. It is usually the belt. I used Tire talc. Though a new belt will sometimes squeak too.
A bad pulley will squeak at the bearing and nothing you put on the belt will quiet that. I ended up replacing all the tension pulley assemblies just as preventative medicine. Didn't intend to when I started out, but the AC belt is such a pain to change, I opted to only undertake that task once. When I replaced them it only made sense to replace the main belt ones too.

.... Just sayin