3400 belt squeal

[79rustyk10]

My 99 grand am has had a belt squeal issue for a long time now, in the last few moths I have replaced

belt
tensioner
P/S pump (twice)
P/S pulley (old one had a few chips)
Idler pulley

Even after replacing all this stuff it still sqeals, however its usually only when its rainy/wet or pretty humid out. the noise really seems to be coming from the P/S pump. I dont know what to do, I am so frusterated with this POS, Im almost to the point of lighting the thing on fire.

Last time I got the $40 belt from carquest, a gates belt I think. Should I try replacing the belt again? I cant afford to keep throwing money at this thing, but I need this noise to stop.

 

[79rustyk10]

Anyone?????

Im almost to the brink of insanity on this

 

[toomany]

Did you have to remove the pulley on the PS pump? If so you might not have it seated correctly. What about the Ac compressor? Smog pump?

 

[80' 427]

We have had alot of trouble with belts and when we had a carquest across the street there belts seemed to do it alot. I would concider a GM belt or get a second carquest one.

 

[79rustyk10]

the belt that was on the car when I got it was a gates belt also, maybe I will have to try a different brand.

 

[Mr-Jack]

do you use belt dressing on your new belts?

 

[79rustyk10]

no belt dressing used, I tried that unsucessfully on the old belt early on.

 

[dhcomp]

The gates belts are pretty well known, i wouldn't go straight to that. But if you do change brands, and it fixes the problem, return the old one.

I like the goodyear gatorback belts in addition to the gates ones.

Are all you pulley's visually aligned?

 

[496truck]

I had this on my S-10 4.3 serp belt.

Replaced it with a Goodyear belt, problem solved. Go find a Goodyear belt.

 

[USSkoval]

One more for the Gatorback belt! If it still squeals, then something is just plain locked up, lol.

 

[79rustyk10]

After work last night I pulled the belt and was inspecting the thing closely when I noticed little peices of gravel stuck all over in the grooves. scraped most of it out and its now alot better.

now I need to get another new belt, and Ill keep this one as a spare. Where do I find the goodyear gatorback belts? I would rather not drive all over hell searching for one.

 

[Blue85]

now I need to get another new belt, and Ill keep this one as a spare. Where do I find the goodyear gatorback belts? I would rather not drive all over hell searching for one.

This is why the phone and the internet were invented...


Do you have Autozone? http://www.autozone.com/autozone/ca...emId=77-0&displayName=Belt&searchText=4060868