Tool Time: Squealing Belts, Laser Beams and Pulley Alignment, WHAT!?
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Let's grab a laser beam and fix that squeaking belt! SAY WHAT!? In this video we use a laser pulley alignment tool to identify a misaligned pulley on this GMC 6.0 that is causing one nasty belt squeal. One of the most over looked items when folks are trying to diagnose a belt squeal is pulley alignment. As you will see in this video, it doesn't take much. -Enjoy!
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smart. cleaning the grooves is often overlooked.
"That belt is so quiet, you can hear the leaky exhaust manifolds now." 😂😂😂😂
My '97 k1500 with a 5.7 was doing this, I took it to a shop and they couldn't figure it out. That didn't stop them from charging me. Gave me dirty looks when I came back.
Watched this video and checked the power steering pulley, it was in too far by one quarter inch. Got it set in the right place as you describe and haven't heard a single squeak since. Thanks Eric O!
that was squeeling like ned beatty on a canoe trip lol
i hear banjo music !!!
Gross.
richard cranium so this makes Eric, Burt Reynolds with his bow!
richard cranium Ned Beaty had the hardest part.
Bahahahaaaaa 😂
I’m a Millwright in Canada and we do laser belt alignments often.
That's a pretty cool tool. I never knew they existed. I have found that most pulleys either go on flush with the end of the shaft, or down to the edge of the bevel on the shaft. I always just make sure to look at the placement before I take it off, and so far haven't had any issues.
actual pulley misalignment amazing! I've mostly found chinesium plastic, aluminum or steel pulleys worn down from fluid leakage and grit eating them. of course no amount of cleaning or belt type fixes that issue, new pulleys all the around.
Great video, valuable info. Ive never had a Dayco belt that didnt squeak no matter what vehicle. On my old 2003 S-10 ive had excellent luck with Goodyear Gatorback belts, never a peep of noise and I get excellent service life. No parts stores around here carries them, have to go online. Eric your videos ROCK-!
super helpful. I have had a chirp for a while since I changed my ps pump. I noticed the belt was at the back of the idler. I sucked the alternator forward but it wasnt enough. I will check my ps pump pulley this weekend. thanks.
Eric, back in the mid 80's the first gen front wheel drive Buick park aves and century's with the 3.8 v6 had this same problem, fairly extensive. Back then we took a long extension and while the engine was running, we'd push on the side of the belt at various places etc. and see how that made it worse or lessened the sound and figured out where the problem was. In the case of the v6 there was a TSB on it and the fix was to shim the harmonic balancer out, and that fixed the problem.
In 1986 we had a bulliten to install a .060 shim behind c/s balancer to get rid of belt squeal.
Didnt even know that miss aligned belts was a thing. Thx for the vid.
Had the same problem on a 2003 PT Cruiser. Dealership threw 3 belts at it until I did some research and suggested that it was a pulley that was misaligned.
glad to know im not the only one that grunts, yells, swears and drops things
Belt alignment and laser eye surgery... all at the same time! :D
lasik by SMA
I had to replace the pump on my 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.2 which had the plastic pulley, the junk yard pump had a metal one and it was 1 groove off when I installed it so the belt actually rode on the lip of the pulley. I got a replacement plastic pulley and installed while it was on the Jeep and I bottomed it out, perfect alignment, seems the serpentine belt is more particular that the OLD V belt--
Yes I know about rusted bolts, etc. on old and Northern cars, I was changing the bump stop cups as they were rusted off and I needed to bring it to the muffler shop to weld on a useable nut and remove, the other side i got lucky on and it came off with some serious pulling
The 3 12 point 13 MM hub bolts are another PITA when they get old and rusted, be sure to replace when changing the axles, 55.00 for6 bolts not cheap but well worth the aggrevation
Hey Eric, talking to yourself is healthy. Arguing with yourself could be an issue and losing the argument, well, I don't want to think about it. Happy New Year to you and your family. Thanks for all the great teachings and videos.
Alain Lemire Actually I think arguing with yourself is ok. I draw the line at beating yourself up and knocking yourself unconscious - that's when you're definitely coo-coo!!
Belt so quiet you could hear the leaking manifold gaskets 😂😂😂
Good vid again.. Have to admit when I first tuned in, there was a real Red Green feel to the way Eric produces his video's . (Without the duct tape, but with a Laser) LOL....Good stuff as always!!! I do pick up good info every video.. Thanks for sharing, and the info always gets you pointed in the right direction..
New Year's Eve Eric O in the morning doesn't get any better. Even though Eric doesn't like Dayco belts if other viewers are like me I always at least look at tools Dr. O uses and I'm starting to use his sayings, but at least I can use them in mixed company.
I use dayco cambelts on subarus and really like them .
Used the odd pulley belt and not had issue, prefer them to gates . Most pulley belts we go bando when can .
laserbeam cool, grandma didn't have a laserbeam lol
pfft going through all that trouble when it just needed louder speakers.
Bah, straight pipe it, no more engine noise at all after that :D
needs noise cancelling speakers?
Squeakage🤔
I think that's a squeaky sausage
Squeakages! :D
If Nick Nolte was a car mechanic.....LOL This guy is great!
Kool!! We’re going into StarWars mode!!! LASERS
Anybody ever bought a new tool and scuffed/ dirtied the case to age it so if your wife asks, you can say "oh, this? Ive had this for a while...." 😀😂
dave1135 lol I am sure almost every guy does that
Mostly with weapons and holsters. Seems I acquire plenty of the accessories. Lights lasers e.c.t. But tools no problem for me.
Nah. I just told my ex-wife that if she didn't like her husband buying tools then she should have married an accountant. Anyway, that didn't stop her from bitching, so I got tired of her bitching and bailed out.
Hey, quit giving away our secrets!
Tools , hunting gear , fishing gear , you name it , guilty as charged !
When the grunting starts , swearing is not far behind. You managed well in keeping this a family rated video though.. Gotta love new belts just like new sneakers..
This guy is legit. He knows everything! I went to school for automotive & diesel technology 17 yrs ago, and although I never pursued it as a career I am constantly fixing vehicles for friends, family, and neighbors. I often find myself chasing my tail with certain issues and this would have been one of them! I would have changed the idler, tensioner, and belt....cursed up a storm when it was still squealing, then proceed to change the harmonic balancer, and drive accessories one by one just to suffer a brain aneurysm and possibly a heart attack simultaneously when non of that would have worked! Great job MR. O!
@@tylerwightman2315 hilarious and probably so true!
I was working on a home project wall switch replacement. I needed to scrape out some dry wall from a narrow crevice. I started to head downstairs to my tool box to get my 90 degree pick. Then I realized it's Eric that has that tool and I don't have one. I'm watching this channel way too much. I hope I don't call my wife Vanessa. She'll be real upset.
Limited space.
Great job and effort, man!
Add a job that was very similar to that 1 and it did up being the crankshaft What's spinning a little faster Then the outside of the crankshaft The harmonic balancer was literally Starting to separate And I said it had been doing it for months
12:28 old skool tricks, Haha! You mean spray the crap out of it with Belt Grip?! 🤣
Happy New Year from Australia Eric & family!
Who gave this video a thumbs down? It's AWESOME!
I have the same exact problem right now on my 02 Chevy. It’s my fault, I didn’t press the power steering pulley on far enough when I replaced itI originally was thinking that I might have a bad Harmonic balancer. Maybe I should just replace that too while I’m in there. Just waiting for my PS kit to arrive today to press it on all the way. All the kits from the Auto stores have busted threads and missing pieces so I just bought my own.
love the commentary.
Poop... Now I've got a Dayco 93874 in my Amazon cart. Shakes tiny fist at Eric O.
I want one but it’s really expensive. I can’t justify 135 bucks for a laser pointer
I just got a used one off Mercari for $38. Has everything included and it's in like new condition.
New word! “Squeakage.” Congrats again.
sorted mate
you know a long gearwrench or similar ratcheting wrench would make installing that power steering pulley a lot easier and might even result in less grunting.
He said right meow ! love it
"...since Moby Dick was a sardine...". I'm going to use that first chance I get.
The "Alternator appears to have been replaced": yeah ..... I watched you replace it.
Right i thought the same thing!
I had to laugh around the 20 minutes mark you said that you'd have to move the pulley has "gotta go just a smidge, just a hair. not a red one tho" !! In Scotland, the land of the redheads, we say "just a baw hair" meaning just "a testicle hair"......
The video i have been looking for ! Thank you, have been dealing with this exact problem for months !
If you dont have the laser you can use a string and a ruler.
SouthJerseySound Steel straight edge!
oh happy new year Eric all the best to you and yours.
Why bother? It's easy to learn to live with a chirping canary under the bonnet. LOL
we couldnt afford sharks Mr. O so we got mutated sea bass lol :D
Yeah it's a nitemare a bad belt but there is always a easy fixs
I love these videos, I know my highly efficient 2007 GMC 2500HD with the 6L engine and 4:10 rear end love them too! I do wish Toyota made an HD truck. Oh well they don't so for now I'm stuck with Gm. Happy New Year O's! Hope you are feeling better Eric.
Happy New Year, to you and yours, from me and mine!
I could understand the first time around when the first shop got it. But when the vehicle came to the second shop, I'm sure the owner would mention to them about this issue had reappeared. Glad to see you got it fixed once and for all!
My van caravan 2002 has been doing this for 10 years of and on and very shot time minute or to and stops
Nice job Dr Evil. Hope you and your family have a safe and happy new year!!
Last Video of the Year!?
Guess you got your Freaking Laser beams on/in before that. LOL :)
Happy New Year Eric O and to your family as well.
My 1997 jimmy 4.3 has that problem
Great video,didnt know such a tool existed
You always seem to post a video I need.... Just rebuilt my LM7 3000 miles ago and it has a bird chirping under the hood. I remember breaking the threaded rod from the tool I rented from O'Reillys trying to get the power steering pump pulley back on. I dont think they rent lasers though? Never heard of Bando belts in Southeast Michigan. They might carry them at the real autoparts stores (the very few that are left).
Bando is my number one brand!
Had me laughing so hard, "No beam, laser beam; No beam, laser beam; No beam, laser beam!" Its always fun to learn and enjoy your time with Eric O. Hey, dont give up on your Google + subscribers! Not everyone uses facebook you know! Great video.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this video! It saved me from going crazy trying to find the source of the squeak on my sons dodge pickup. We did just as you instructed and now no noise!
Have this same problem on my mom's Taurus. Replaced the belt and the tensioner multiple times but the squeak always comes back next day or even same day. I've long suspected something like this as the culprit but had no idea how to measure it. I've also come to suspect the A/C pulley bearing might be the one making noise, very hard to tell even with a stethoscope.
What year Taurus?
What do you think about the use of belt dressing ?
Did you put a stethoscope on each part in the belt path to narrow down the source? Just a thought. When you said belt alignment, an alignment laser immediately came to mind. Thanks
I've seen the harmonic balancers bonding rubber fail causing the crank pulley to make the same noise. Very common on LS powered Corvettes.
I had a harmonic balancer explode on me once...ahhhh good ol' Northstar
A buddy of mine got burned once multiple tensioners and idler pulleys belts etc even an alternator turns out the power steering pulley was out of alignment
You Da Man...as always all the other mechanics could not find the issue...way to go Eric O.
You should try trying to retime a Chevy 396 with one of those harmonic balancers that slipped
Had to change one for my father-in-law
You the man!...✔ thanks much appreciated 😁👍
By the way it was just the crappy dayco belt... 🙂
easiest way to test pulley bearings. Take a spray bottle full of water and spray each one individually. When the noise is gone, you found the culprit.
Well done . Lesson learned, thanks!!
Eric, why did you loosen the puller before you were finished when another check of the alignment did show you had to go some more
Happy New Year! Love your videos... keep em' comin' :)
just went thru this with my 03 land rover disco 2...the pulley for the power steering pump backed off 1/8" ....there was not pushing it on...ie: no hole to thread the tool on. so I had to buy a new PS pump. argh!
Another excellent video! But I am disappointed in the lack of air quotes with as many times as you've said "laser" haha
I just needed some sharks
@@SouthMainAuto haha. Would be awesome if someone 3D printed a shark you could put that laser in!
were not answering you because were laughing to much at you..........your doing good chap
The Power steering pully is adjustable?
Kinda hard to see how you did it with your tool eric?
But as always great video!
got to add my two cents.. a great belt to stop squeaking an great wear. is the gator belt.
Back in my day we just used a piece of floss, some squinting and a yard stick, close enough, never had a squealer.
That laser is a bit more definite though.
I love you so much!!! You saved my life again. Thank you for being so thorough. You are the best mechanic ever!!!!!!
Since Moby Dick was a sardine........🤣🤣 You crack me up.....🤣🤣
Nice shout to Leon! RIGHT.....SORTED!!!
Another great job Eric is there a tool You Don't Own lol
that video of the bald Eagle was fantastic. Better than Suzuki.
Hope you had that MAF Sensor unplugged before starting that truck. Hot wire not getting Air?!
Ralf's Automotive Diagnostics & Repair Huh?
Would a feeler gauge on the alternator pulley/ body show misalignment?
Does the laser come in metric and imperial?
"Since Moby Dick was a sardine."
LOL
You sure that pop wasn't you Eric? Lol
No beam, laser beam, no beam, laser beam.
Happy New Year! Eric O.
You sound like Dr.evil of Austin powers talking about that laser
I was gonna say you didn't let that Chevy go with that belt noise after you changed the alternator, I'm guessing it was the same truck HAPPY NEW YEARS
WHAT !! no brake clean to get crap out of pullies !!
but laser cool tool-hate serpentine belts-everything depends on ONE SKINNY belt
Excellent info there Eric, I didn't now these types of laser alignment tools were out there.
Had a replacmentt alternator pulley cause a belt squeak. Replaced alt pulley squeak be gone
Will this tool work for a V belt?
"Why am I always talking to myself? I love laser beams"
You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!
Seriously Eric, you need eye protection working with lasers.
What the hellllll! No brake clean? Hahaha. Plus brake clean should sponser you as much as you advertise it. Just saying. Very good video.
$100 on Fleabay for the Dayco kit right now.
Happy new year
This was one of the best videos. Never even knew the depth of some of those pullys is adjustable.
Great job Mr. O! Thank you for your great videos. Your wealth of knowledge is appreciated! Keep up the great work.