So I have not looked to closely at my engine, but I heard that the high pitch squeaking sound coming means that there is crap stuck in the teeth of the timing belt. So my question is how do I undue the timing belt to clean it out. Pictures would be mucho helpful. Also the car is at 52k miles. Do you think I should change the belt or leave it, and if I should change it, what size and kind should I get?
No timming belt in the Eco.
Gilles
2.3 Ho
well um the belt that makes a god awful squeaking sound, how do i fix that.
The serpentine belt.
It's a 3/8 inch drive on the belt tensioner. I bought a special tool that is long enough to reach down. Then you push the tensioner back torward the rear of the car with the special tool and remove the belt. Wish I could help you with pictures, but the digi camera is broken.
Just get a stock replacement belt.
oh cool do you know what tool it is perse, like do i go into autozone and sya i need somtehing for the belt tensenor or whatever?? Thanks!
Yep, just go to the 'help' section, or the aisle with the specialty tools. Mine was a kit with some bars, some 'sockets'. May as well grab yourself a belt while your there, to. BTW, that belt is the serpentine belt -- drives all the accessories of the crankshaft pulley. You'll need to know the year, make, and engine size.
Looks like this, but it needs to have the 3/8 in adapter.
It may be true. A regular 3/8" breakover bar with a proper
socket works just as well for overcoming the tension
bar when doing serpentine belts. Is this true ?
Leland Sparks wrote:It may be true. A regular 3/8" breakover bar with a proper
socket works just as well for overcoming the tension
bar when doing serpentine belts. Is this true ?
Yeah, if you can find a breaker bar long enough to reach and is a 3/8 in drive.
But the tool I posted makes it 10x easier, as you can change the angle of the drive.
Sunfires... eh (Tom) has good reasons to forget about using a
breakover bar. Thanks.
I do have a suggestion, however.
It is not "normal" for a belt to be the cause unless it is
loose or a pulley is mis-aligned.
There are ways to listen and pinpoint the cause.
Probably a bearing in water pump or alternator.
oh then how do i fix those issues??
<<oh then how do i fix those issues??>>
If it is a mis-aligned pulley, you'll need someone's help
with experience with 2.2L DOHC "Ecotec".
As to a bearing, my method is to carefully listen with
the engine running using a piece of wooden broom
handle, one end against the suspected component,
the other end lightly against one ear. You'll be
surprised how much sound will transmit through
a piece of wood.
DayUSeX (ws6+04cav= FTW) wrote:oh then how do i fix those issues??
High pitched squeeling = belt slipping.
oh so how do I fix the slipping belt?
Sunfires... eh (Tom) wrote:The serpentine belt.
Then you push the tensioner back torward the rear of the car with the special tool and remove the belt.
For a '93 2.2 you turn the tensioner COUNTER clockwise to release i.e. towards the FRONT of the car
Is it different on the later models
Alont
Sometimes one of the components driven by the
belt (like the alternator) will have a shaft bearing
that will weep lubricant....
If some of this lube coates the belt it will cause
a belt squeek....
Just spray the belt grooves with carb or brake
parts cleaner while the engine is idling...
This will at least stop or lessen the belt slippage
due to lubricant contamination...
