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Old Dec 10, 2011 | 11:46 PM
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Nope > it might be the thicker gates belt I have.
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Old Dec 11, 2011 | 12:27 AM
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I myself have had some issues with belt squeel. It ended up being that a little bit of coolant was seeping out from around the thermostat housing. It was lightly misting the belt and only losing a tiny amount of coolant. Thus even after the water in the coolant evaporated there was still a light coating of the coolant itself. And the rate of loss was so slow there was not particularly discernible loss of coolant.
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Old Dec 11, 2011 | 12:30 AM
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Its not that, everything is shipshape its my belt, my mechanic thinks its the stiff belts.
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Old Dec 11, 2011 | 12:59 AM
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Having the same problems, subscribed in case a good answer gets posted.
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Old Dec 11, 2011 | 01:01 AM
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Are you using a stock belt? If its aftermarket that might be the problem. I put my old stock one on and no squeel, put my brand new unstretched gates belt and the squeel is back.
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Old Dec 11, 2011 | 01:08 AM
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No mines stock. And only when the ac compressor is on
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Old Dec 11, 2011 | 01:10 AM
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I had the same problem, my pulleys looked ok to me but new belts squeaked, I tried the pumice hand soap, the liquid worked better than the bar but only lasted a few days. I got mad and roughed up the pulleys with some 80 grit sand paper (I tried for a 60 degree cross hatch like you want on a cylinder wall) and the squeak died. I know this is not a permanent solution but it will do till i get around to doing that new water pump and radiator up grade I have been putting off. It couldn't hurt to try ther is nothing worse than the squeaky squeaky
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Old Dec 11, 2011 | 01:13 AM
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Someone said tighten the tensioner a smiget till it goes away, try that. Ill jus let mine stretch then I'll turn my fan on again
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