sublime42o

My alternator belt wont stop squeeling and I've gone through two belts in a month because they have broken. I have the belt tightened to the specified ammount and its still squeeling. I have all of my emissions stuff removed including the airpump, and I have exhaust and a street port. Will a dual alt pulley and two new belts solve my problem?

Thanks

Tom

DerangedHermit

The dual alternator belt should help with the slipping. You said you tightened to the specified amount, which would be? I always tighten my alternators as much as I can. Pry it up with a crowbar or something and bolt that sucker in.

For all I know that's bad, but it's worked so far.

WAYNE88N/A

Hey, do yourself a favor and take the belt off, then turn the alt by hand. Feel any resistance? Any play? Are you sure it's not your alt bearing that's squealing? How old is the alt? Going through two belts in a short period of time like that means that: A) You're overloading the alt electrically, or B) the alt is screwed internally, and it's only a matter of time before it ***** on you...

DerangedHermit

Wow, never thought of that Wayne. I had an alternator once that was putting out about 1.5 the electricity it was supposed to. Kept messing up my systems.

Btw, stop being useful Wayne, you make me look bad .

Kenteth

Coincidentaly, when I had the stock clutch fan hooked up, I couldn't rev above 6k without the *waterpump* pulley squeeling. Plus my powerband was gone at 7k.. I removed it and put the efan back in, and the squeel was gone, and my powerband goes well past 8k (even if its not super safe...)

Anyhow, the clutch fan was locking up causing the waterpump pulley to say **** the belts.

1RevvinFC3S

When my Air Pump belt broke, it caused my water pump pully and my alternator pulley to squeel. If your alt. isn't screwed up as Wayne mentioned, then I would reccomend doing the dual belt pully.

poor_red_neck

If the alt is ok.... its more than likely squeeking from the waterpump... since your airpump belt is off.... its only getting half the belt contact it should be. Then again... I'm not right there listening to the belt. If you're leaving the airpump off, get a dual alt pulley.

TooMuch4You

or try this http://1300cc.com/howto/how2/belt.htm

Ronald E. Jacques

TooMuch4You, that body ain't half bad. At least from the side its not too much. you have more pics? Sorry I know I'm off topic

sublime42o

i tried that 3L220 belt and its just really loose and doesnt help at all. It worked for about a day and then stretched out some I guess because it doesn't work at all anymore.

Icemark

Very bad, and a quick way to go through an alt or belts.

Too tight will bend the shaft of the alt... pretty much killing it fast unless the belt breaks.

Of course if you are a weakling, then your "tightest that you can" may only be the stock tightness...

Digi7ech

iTrader: (1)

My car would run hot and squeel until I got a Dual Alt pulley on my car.

I put a Yoohoo on it and it got rid of the squeeling but I had cooling issues since the water pump was slipping a bit still.

Jodoolin

Off the wall possibility. I also had a squeel and suspected the altinator. Excellent RX7 mechanic found a bad tensioner. Bearing gone and not running true. New tensioners.. no squeel.

ilike2eatricers

Just go with a dual alt pulley and get 2 new belts. Don't use one new belt and one old one.

LowFreq

Where can I get a dual alt pulley?

sublime42o

the cheapest ones are at www.mazdatrix.com but you can get bright colored rotor shaped ones for a little bit more from http://rx7cz.net/shop/

ilike2eatricers

I have Higgi's and it looks awesome. I havent run it on the car yet but I'm sure it's top notch quality.