chirpy cheep cheep chapter 2.

Ta 4 answers to original thread,still have probs tho`.Buddy of mine (cartman 69) had a gander&listen at my tdi300 serpentine belt/ancilleries ongoing noises.Could`nt make much more sense out of it than me apart from advising me that while WDing a belt may shut it up 4 a while,it can shorten the life of the belt.Anyway,today (sunday) i removed the tensioner&fitted a tensioner bearing kit to the pulley,reassembled,fired the motor&within 30 seconds chirpy cheep cheep was back,another 30 seconds & a piece of shredded belt shot past the side of my head.One thing i noticed was the new water pump i fitted 18/11/06 seems to have a small amount of endfloat on the pulley(almost nil) should that be?Is that my problem? Answers to landyzone please! mucky`un.

Try a new belt! If it still get's chirpy on yeh this can be caused by misalignment of the tension pulley,undo alu block and put a half pence on right side & tighten-still no good undo and put yeh packing on the left side, this usually does the trick-chirp!

Jason

Jason .... the half pence stopped being issued in 1984!

oh well!

You'l have to try and get one off fleabay then!!

Failing that use a similar shim washer that's approx 0.4mm,1/16 or 0.0156

and put a half pence on right side

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What and double the value of the vehicle.....................

Hi Mucky,

Could`nt make much more sense out of it than me apart from advising me that while WDing a belt may shut it up 4 a while,it can shorten the life of the belt.

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When I said use wd on the belt, I didn't mean as a fix, it's just to determine if the noise was actually coming from the belt. Is it louder if you turn the steering wheel?

Regards
RichardG

Hi again richard,no, turning the steering wheel does`nt make any difference. I also checked the steering pump for endfloat on the pulley while the belt was off & found nothing...Too many components too close together to find the fault easily...mucky`un.

Hi Jason,thanks for your input.The shimming idea may be one to think on,maybe more so now because its making me think back a couple of years when the engine was`nt happy to be fitted with new serpentine belts.Every time i tried to fit a new one,it would strip one groove off the belt within seconds reducing the width lets say from 7 grooves to 6.Got a feeling its found this habit again..trouble is it was so long ago,i forgot how i cured it!!Thanks again.Mucky`un.

all pulleys must be in line. any deviation will cause the effects youve described.
check with a straight edge. misallaignment or bearings usually the problem.