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Old Apr 7, 2013 | 05:59 PM
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Red face Air pump smoking?

After changing the water pump on my S4 i installed all the belts and fired her up.

Everything seemed fine until I started to smell smoke.

Started peeping around and noticed there was a steady stream of smoke coming from the air pump bolt. I have a picture to illustrate the problem.

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Old Apr 7, 2013 | 06:17 PM
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Was it hot to the touch?
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Old Apr 7, 2013 | 06:36 PM
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Didnt touch the bolt lol

But have you seen anything like this?

Is that belt supposed to be really tight? maybe I over tightened it.
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Old Apr 7, 2013 | 07:30 PM
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I don't see how an overtight belt would heat up the mounting bolt.
I asked if you touched it because it seems more likely that something dripped onto it and caused smoke rather than the bolt itself getting so hot it smoked (a condition I can't even imagine...).

Edit:
Does the air pump spin freely?
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Old Apr 8, 2013 | 12:36 AM
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Maybe it was just some coolant...haha.

But yeah the pump does spin freely. Ill double check it.
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