Td4 Belt slipping after water

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CoilerBen

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Hi guys,

A quick question, after driving through some fairly sizeable puddles one of my drive belts squeals and slips for 2-5 seconds and power feels down (lights dim a bit and struggles to accelerate)... Now i'm guessing its the alternator belt? As i thought they had timing chains...

Does anyone else have this problem? And is there a way to solve/reduce this happening in water? Any way of deflecting the water?

The puddles were nowhere near maximum wading depth and not entering at great speed, and it drives fine afterwards with no problems...

Cheers
Ben
 
It only squeals for a second or 2, then its fine... With amount of rain been having everywhere seems to be on verge of flooding...

Is there any good ways to waterproof engine? Not a snorkel but just make it a bit more waterproof? As i said the puddles were not 400mm deep so within its limits
 
Fresh belt and make sure your plastic splash covers are there, they are on front inner wheel arches held on my 3 bolts, also hooking into your undertray

Don't put wd40 on it, the oil weakens the rubber, short term fix but soon wears off.
 
What you don't want is water getting in the alternator, but it should be ok in puddles. What you also don't want is water getting in the drivebelt tensioner and idler bearings. They are a real ****e to change....
 
I have also used trim and tyre dressing on noisy belts. Bit space monkey is right about water in alternator and tensioners.
 
Tire chalk/wax is normally quite effective. Bit that's only because it's to hand to me
 
It only squeals for a second or 2, then its fine... With amount of rain been having everywhere seems to be on verge of flooding...

Is there any good ways to waterproof engine? Not a snorkel but just make it a bit more waterproof? As i said the puddles were not 400mm deep so within its limits

maybe think about getting a boat:D
 
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