today i had to change all my belts, they were all old and my alternator belt broke two nights ago, i changed everything today
before i changed them, the car ran great, minus the charging problem because there was no alt belt

after putting all the belts back on, the idle is ****- around 2-300 rpm
there feels like there is no low end power, and it bucks and eventually stalls below 4000 rpm
there is a 1500 rpm hesitation, and 3000 rpm hesitation
and there also looks to be a little bit of smoke coming from the passenger side part of the engine, seems like the area closest to the firewall
i'm really worried and annoyed about this, does anyone have any ideas what it could be? i put everything back together as i had seen it before i started

help please

 

how much did you tighten them. You need to tighten them twise, second time after 15 minutes of the engine running.


GIl

 

i ran the car for about an hour and a half and every belt was fine

any ideas?

 

anyone?

 

Double check the belts for play is all I could think of.

 

Well..... The belt probably have nothing to do with it.


Sounds like you unpluged, or bumped something in the engine bay.

Maybe you unplugged the AFM, and forgot to plug it back up? Just look threw your engine bay for anything that is unpluged, that you might have taken off to install the belts, or maybe you hit, and broke/knocked off the plug.


Or a major vacume line that you may have pulled off and forgotten?

 

i will check the AFM and vacuum lines
also i can't give the car full throttle because it will just bog down...think the afm and vacuum lines may have something to do with this?

thanks

james