Squeaking / scraping noises - belts?

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patrickr90

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Hi

On startup, there is a lot of squeaking coming from the belt area. I can't tell if it's belts slipping. Is there a way of testing this. I'm also worried that it could be a timing belt about to fail? On startup the last couple of times, there has been a fairly dramatic noise that sounds like something scraping. It doesn't stop dead when I kill the engine but last for 2-3 seconds after that - like it's something still spinning and coming to rest.

Thanks
 
No series engine has a timing belt. Sounds like it could be a fan pulley coming loose and catching the cowl, or an alternator bearing. Check the tension on the fan belt.
 
Thought you had a Ninety with a 200tdi in it?
Unless you have a Series aswell?
If it is a tdi take the belts off but don't run it long with no belt.
Stick a endoscope up the timing belt cover drain hole to look at the timing belt.
If it is a Series then ignore the above advice.
 
I checked the pulleys and they are OK. I tightened the belts. This helped the initial (see below) squeaking. (the belts actually need replacing soon).

But the concerning thing is this sudden sound that comes about 20 seconds after start up. It's like a someone throwing a load of nails into a tin. It continues at low level underneath the engine noise. Then the squeaking starts up again. I turn the wheels and this interrupts the sqeaking. There could be a vague smell - but I can't be sure about that. For about 5 seconds after I kill the engine, there is a sort of descending note as if something is continuing to move and then coming to rest. It doesn't seem to be connected with any of the pulley blocks which have already stopped by this point. I was worried that the starter motor might have continued to be engaged (or had been re-energised somehow) but that wouldn't account for the sound continuing on after engine stop.
 
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