water pumps can make weird noises
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Have you tried the ole piece of wood trick if you don't have a stethescope?
And I would replace that compressor belt with a gates whether its making noise or not. Not onyl does it look sketchy, but too many times I've seen cheap belts squeal or slip or even jump off with just a good throttle rap from the time they are brand new. Cheap belts suck.
And I would replace that compressor belt with a gates whether its making noise or not. Not onyl does it look sketchy, but too many times I've seen cheap belts squeal or slip or even jump off with just a good throttle rap from the time they are brand new. Cheap belts suck.
Are you messin with me about the soap?
I'm super careful messing around the motor running after whacking the shit outta my knuckles on the spinning fan while tuning idle mixture. Been a while since I had a mechanical fan on a motor I was tinkering on
Nope. Did it frequently. Easiest way to tell if it is a belt or not. If it's a belt, squeal stops for a little bit.
Remove belts one at a time if Wade's truck doesn't work. It will isolate it. Don't discredit it being a new belt. I had belt squeak on my 6.0L powerstroke years ago. I had changed the belt when I got the truck so it wasn't very old. I ended up replacing ac compressor and still the noise. That's when I learned about how the pulleys that are smooth and run on the back of the belt get too smooth and cause squeaking. Lots of guys sandblast them to rough them up a bit. I also learned a neat truck from a Moab parts guy. I would take little clumps of damp blow sand(that super soft stuff in Moab) and drop them down on the backside of the belt where in ran down behind an idler pulley and voila noise be gone. At least for a few months then I would do it again. Might be a combo of smooth pulleys and slightly loose belt.
I have used this trick before as well.
I have also used a little brake cleaner, CAREFULLY!! I have had belts that were contaminated with oil get quiet when sprayed with brake clean because a bar of soap was too risky because of the fan being too close.
And I don't know why @mrk5 would think that you were messing with him, you're always so angelic!!
Yeah, I'm not going to screw around by telling someone to stick there hands in a running engine area just for laughs. Unless I am there to watch.
DAMN! I had nearly the exact same problem with the 6.0L Super Duty we used to own. I replaced the belt early in our ownership because it was chirping when you shut it off. New belt fixed that but we developed belt slipping over about 3000RPM, then it was 2500RPM. I checked everything, even replaced the tensioner and fan clutch because we had narrowed it down to happening when the fan clutch was engaged. Finally one day I decided to replace the Napa belt with a Ford Motorcraft belt, and that fixed it.
The thing I learned about the 6.0L power stroke is that you pretty much had to use Motorcraft for everything or it just wouldn't work right.
Part of what I was wondering is, why the motor would need to be running.
I may just replace the belts because I'm questioning whether or not I actually replaced them. I'm thinking it was the crew cab that I replaced the belts. I think this because looking at the belt arrangement on the 73, it's kind of a pain in the neck and I don't remember messing with all of them before.
Yeah v-belts are cheap. Might be a good idea to take a little sand paper to the pulley surfaces if they are really shiny or a quick sandblast if you have that option.
If you still lived in Moab, I'd have you send me some sand. 
Lol my kids loved our big sandbox yard when we lived there. They always wanted to go to the "sand hill" across from the entrance to Arch's NP and play too.If you still lived in Moab, I'd have you send me some sand.
Just easier and faster to cover the whole thing. And when you come out with both hands, you stand back and think, "I am a bad mo fo".
Also posted this in the Audio section, but thought I would put the question here as well.
This truck has a center speaker from factory. I can get a replacement speaker for that spot, but I was thinking about other options.
I know a lot of squarebody owners put small speakers in each end of the dash. Is this something all of these trucks have provisions for?
I can say my dash pad doesn't have holes/grill on the ends so I'd have to do something to open up the dash pad as well.
Curious what others have found with dash speakers.
This truck has a center speaker from factory. I can get a replacement speaker for that spot, but I was thinking about other options.
I know a lot of squarebody owners put small speakers in each end of the dash. Is this something all of these trucks have provisions for?
I can say my dash pad doesn't have holes/grill on the ends so I'd have to do something to open up the dash pad as well.
Curious what others have found with dash speakers.
I don't remember what my 73,74 and 76 had, but I remember the 86 had provision for middle or corners.
I will have to look at my 89 and 84 suburbans to see if it is there too or it was an option.
I know my buddy's 90 K5 had them. I don't remember if he moved them over to the 79 K30.
I'm really wondering if they had even thought about making it an option yet in 73. I know there seems to be a few things different with the 73 & 74 trucks.
I'm really wondering if they had even thought about making it an option yet in 73. I know there seems to be a few things different with the 73 & 74 trucks.
I do not think they did. I know my dads 73 did not have them when I bought it from him. Single speaker am radio.
The front corner speakers came available with the dash change in '81. They also moved the VIN plate over to accommodate. I put a newer dash pad in my old '79 to try it and found out.
That's what I was thinking. The truck was made before FM stereo was common.
I can get a replacement speaker that has dual voice coils so you get that stereo type sound.
I was just trying to decide if it would bother me to have all the sound coming from the center of the cab. Especially since I have a sub to mount behind the seat and it will go in the middle.
Also thinking some about the highliner with speakers which would solve the speaker mounting problem and the saggy headliner. But that's also a pretty spendy solution.
Another option is the kick panel speakers like I have in the crew cab. But it makes operating the parking brake a pain.
So I'm thinking I'll just run with a new center speaker and if I don't like it, I can figure out which solution I want to try.
Sometimes I feel like my posts use the word "thinking" a lot. 
My Ford had these little inch and a half looking tweeters just hanging out from the A-pillar trim by the speaker wires. They made a lot of difference in how it sounded.
