Idler pulley ? Please help
02-24-2016, 11:35 PM
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Idler pulley ? Please help
98 Cherokee 200k
I was driving the other day, and i started to hear this howling sound. Almost sounded like a ghost. This noice eventually got louder, progressed into a rattle, then eventually a dying whining, and then the jeep crapped out.
When I popped the hood, there was smoke coming from where the belt meets the a.c. compresser.
Is this a failure of the idler pulley or what else could it be?
I was driving the other day, and i started to hear this howling sound. Almost sounded like a ghost. This noice eventually got louder, progressed into a rattle, then eventually a dying whining, and then the jeep crapped out.
When I popped the hood, there was smoke coming from where the belt meets the a.c. compresser.
Is this a failure of the idler pulley or what else could it be?
02-25-2016, 04:02 AM
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Could be the water pump. Mine went out last week and had made the same sounds. Did the smoke smell like coolant or just rubber from the belt?
02-25-2016, 08:05 AM
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