My V-8 seems to enjoy eating the edge off of the serpentine belt. Tonight I was driving home with the A/C on and I hear this noise coming from the engine that was directly related to engine speed. When I got home, I popped open the trunk and notice the edge of the belt was missing a groove at some points and the shredded remains of it on some of the pulleys. This belt is a Kelly Springfield brand belt and it's been on the car for less than 4 months. The very same thing happened to the old belt so can anyone give me ideas why this is happening? Thanks.
My SHO eats serpentine belts, any suggestions?
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As far as I know, everything is fine. I had a Goodyear Gatorback belt on for about 6 months before I put the Springfield on and it wasn't damaged at all. The reason I took it off was because it made the loudest whine and I couldn't stand it anymore so I replaced it with a regular v-belt. I don't care to replace it again because it only cost about $20.00 to do it, but I don't want it to be a regular occurance either.
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yamahaSHO said:
Serpentine belts are still considered V-belts, but they usually call them ribbed or just serpentine. Like Jason said though, you've got a mis-alignment somewhere that needs to be found. With the motor off, have your lovely assistant hold the tension off of the belt. Then you can do a wiggle test on each device that the pulley touches.
I know there is not much room in there but you can also put a straight edge across the face of a pulley and then check to see that the distance from straight edge to belt is the same. Any difference in measurment means something is ****-eyed.
Tom
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It's not uncommon to have the belt misaligned on the A/C compressor pulley or the crank pulley. It's easy to have the belt off by one groove/rib, which bends the last rib up over the outer (or inner) lip on the pulley and destroys the belt quickly.
I went ahead and replaced it with another Gatorback belt and the strange thing is that this one doesn't wine like the other Goodyear belt I had on. It's running good for now so I'll wait and see what happens down the road.
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