Quackfoo
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Holy crap that's annoying.
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Holy crap that's annoying.
can you use a stethoscope or long extension to isolate exactly where the chirp is?Here is what mine sounded like this morning. Based on the other video looks like my car has contracted the disease :(
Mine took about a week and half to sound like that. Then I changed the belt 3 times and it took about a week to start again. It's worse when you are driving and going up in rpm but mine does go away when it warms up and if it's hot outside. If it's under 60 outside it's another story and the chirping never stops .oh please oh please don't let mine sound like that next week.
I don't have one put that's the plan this weekend...I need to find where the noise is coming from. Initially it sounds like its coming from the blower pulley to me.can you use a stethoscope or long extension to isolate exactly where the chirp is?
I've got about 2,000 miles on mine and I would say it started to chirp after about 1,500 miles.Mine took about a week and half to sound like that. Then I changed the belt 3 times and it took about a week to start again. It's worse when you are driving and going up in rpm but mine does go away when it warms up and if it's hot outside. If it's under 60 outside it's another story and the chirping never stops .
If someone still has a noise after updating the stands. There are a few possible issues. First, over torquing idler pulleys can be a problem. I would recommend loosening each idler and take the torque level down roughly 5-10%. I would also check alternator alignment.
The noise comes from the edge of the belt touching a guard. Most common culprit is the water pump pulley. But once an edge of the belt is damaged, it's most likely going to make the noise unless flipped or replaced. It's not damaged in the level of failure, it's damaged in the that the edge is scarred with an extra burr or something hanging off, when it goes by a "guard" on a pulley, it makes that noise.
You do not need to shim the SC or idlers. In fact, please, do not DO THIS. This will only cause issues.
Installing mine this weekend hope this is not a common issue.
We've got thousands of these out there with no issues, it has happened to a few and were working on it and I'll have some test pieces soon.
The best way to isolate it is with a squirt bottle and water. Squirt water on the pulley and it will either go away or stay. This helps isolate where the noise is coming from.