This is getting old pretty fast...
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This is getting old pretty fast...
My truck apparently has a taste for drive belts. This will be the second one since I bought her in May I'll be replacing.
Started up fine this afternoon, and then I thought I heard squeaking. Checked, didn't see anything or hear anything else and took her out anyways since it was only 5 miles to the barn.
All good til I was ready to head home and was real sure that was squeaking under the hood. We made it about 2 miles and then I smelled that lovely burning rubber making a turn...at which point my power steering and brakes went out.
Long story short, I called one of my buddies to come rescue me, but of course I can't do anything about fixing her since everything is closed today. So now I'm suffering severe separation anxiety because the truck is still 3 miles away and not in my driveway where she belongs.
My buddy and I pulled the belt out- my vacuum pump is the issue again, just like last time. It keeps working its way out of alignment and then the fan hits the edge of the belt. It also looks like the bolt that should prevent that is missing. I'm hoping really hard that putting in a new bolt will solve this- any other theories?? (otherwise I'm going to have a very expensive lawn ornament for a while!)
Started up fine this afternoon, and then I thought I heard squeaking. Checked, didn't see anything or hear anything else and took her out anyways since it was only 5 miles to the barn.
All good til I was ready to head home and was real sure that was squeaking under the hood. We made it about 2 miles and then I smelled that lovely burning rubber making a turn...at which point my power steering and brakes went out.
Long story short, I called one of my buddies to come rescue me, but of course I can't do anything about fixing her since everything is closed today. So now I'm suffering severe separation anxiety because the truck is still 3 miles away and not in my driveway where she belongs.
My buddy and I pulled the belt out- my vacuum pump is the issue again, just like last time. It keeps working its way out of alignment and then the fan hits the edge of the belt. It also looks like the bolt that should prevent that is missing. I'm hoping really hard that putting in a new bolt will solve this- any other theories?? (otherwise I'm going to have a very expensive lawn ornament for a while!)
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it sounds like something is loose! i am assuming you have double checked every pulley to make sure none are wobbling?
why cant you drive it to your driveway? it will run it will just be manual steering and manual brakes. back when my belt let loose i was about 5 miles out from the farm and i was towing a 25' gooseneck with a new holland LS180 skid steer... needless to say not a light load. it was real hairy making the turns i needed and stopping to make the turns but i made it. i was sure i was going to overheat the truck since the waterpump wasnt turning but surprisingly it stayed cooled
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why cant you drive it to your driveway? it will run it will just be manual steering and manual brakes. back when my belt let loose i was about 5 miles out from the farm and i was towing a 25' gooseneck with a new holland LS180 skid steer... needless to say not a light load. it was real hairy making the turns i needed and stopping to make the turns but i made it. i was sure i was going to overheat the truck since the waterpump wasnt turning but surprisingly it stayed cooled
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I removed my electric fans last January to replace the waterpump and still haven't reinstalled them. Since then I've towed a 20 ft trailer 2700 miles from Az to NY. I planned on putting them back on but it never gets hot enough here that I need them.
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If it's the first one you will need a new pulley to go on a new pump. There is no bolt that holds the pulley in place, it's held on by friction, press fit.
If the whole pump is getting loose then you are likely missing the bolts that go behind the pulley. They need to put into place before the pulley is installed on the pump....and then the pump can be installed onto the bracket.
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It probably wouldn't hurt to check everything else again just in case; but if you look at the vacuum pump from the driver's side, you can see the whole pulley is just a little bit further forward than it should be. I'm honestly not quite sure if I mean the pulley is working off the vacuum pump or is the whole pump getting loose
(I know my descriptions probably aren't the most helpful...I wasn't mechanically inclined at all until last November, and she's my first diesel, so it's learn-as-I-go right now!)
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...even without the drive belt I won't hurt anything else? gonna be a long 3 miles for me- I didn't bring her back yesterday cause I didn't want to take anyone out...I'm not a very big person, and it took both feet and every ounce of strength I have to get her stopped
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The belt shoudln't come off that easy IMO.
But yea, figure out why its outa place, and be sure to check all your idle pullies to make sure they are good.
If they are damaging the belt any, that will make it easier for the belt to move around.
But yea, figure out why its outa place, and be sure to check all your idle pullies to make sure they are good.
If they are damaging the belt any, that will make it easier for the belt to move around.
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short belt life is deffinatly a missalignment or bent pully. Ilders are pretty notorious for this. The tensioners can go out too. What brand vac pump is it? Ive had TERRIBLE luck with napas. I use motorcrafts now with MUCH better results. Also, check that pully to see if its bent, it can be done. That'll shorten a pumps life also.
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I called the local Ford dealership yesterday...that was a bad idea. "oh it sounds like you'll want to replace the pump and pulley, plus get an $80 drive belt from us!" ~$450 in parts alone...blah...
so I think it's only my pulley that's the problem?
just working its way out
and then I end up with an out-of-alignment drive belt now in the path of the fan. *sigh*
I honestly don't know what brand the vac pump is...I did bring her back home last night, so I feel ever so slightly better. that was a freakin long 3 miles, but I didn't injure anyone/thing :/
so I think it's only my pulley that's the problem?
just working its way out
and then I end up with an out-of-alignment drive belt now in the path of the fan. *sigh*
I honestly don't know what brand the vac pump is...I did bring her back home last night, so I feel ever so slightly better. that was a freakin long 3 miles, but I didn't injure anyone/thing :/