Chirp/squeal-hard to find
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Chirp/squeal-hard to find
Folks---Maybe this will help one of you one day. My 1998 cherokee had a squeal that most people would have identified as a belt problem--and I honestly couldn't tell that it wasn't. It took me about a year of tinkering and replacing the belt, idle pully an just getting aggrevated. I was actually starting to get ready to replace the water pump and fan clutch before I finaly got lucky.
The bearing in the distributer shaft was the cause. At 180k miles I suppose this is not uncommon but it sounded exactly like a belt chirping and the noise resonates to area around the pulley so it was hard to determine that it was coming from the distributer.
Not hard, but not the easiest thing in the world to replace...$190.00 from advance.
-scott
The bearing in the distributer shaft was the cause. At 180k miles I suppose this is not uncommon but it sounded exactly like a belt chirping and the noise resonates to area around the pulley so it was hard to determine that it was coming from the distributer.
Not hard, but not the easiest thing in the world to replace...$190.00 from advance.
-scott
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Year: 1998
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Folks---Maybe this will help one of you one day. My 1998 cherokee had a squeal that most people would have identified as a belt problem--and I honestly couldn't tell that it wasn't. It took me about a year of tinkering and replacing the belt, idle pully an just getting aggrevated. I was actually starting to get ready to replace the water pump and fan clutch before I finaly got lucky.
The bearing in the distributer shaft was the cause. At 180k miles I suppose this is not uncommon but it sounded exactly like a belt chirping and the noise resonates to area around the pulley so it was hard to determine that it was coming from the distributer.
Not hard, but not the easiest thing in the world to replace...$190.00 from advance.
-scott
The bearing in the distributer shaft was the cause. At 180k miles I suppose this is not uncommon but it sounded exactly like a belt chirping and the noise resonates to area around the pulley so it was hard to determine that it was coming from the distributer.
Not hard, but not the easiest thing in the world to replace...$190.00 from advance.
-scott
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Wayne
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