[T3] Fan Belt of Not? (squeal)

[Max Welton]

If you are talking about the castle-nut that hold the rear drum in place, there is no way you can get it tight enough with a chisel. I think the spec for that nut is something like 280-300 ft/lbs.

Max Welton
http://www.maxwelton2k.net/


--- On Tue, 6/5/12, J. Jonik <j_jonik at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: J. Jonik <j_jonik at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [T3] Fan Belt of Not?  (squeal)
> To: type3 at vwtype3.org
> Date: Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 3:09 PM
> Looking around in and around right
> rear wheel, a maybe source of the squeals, it turned out
> that the hub nut was Finger Loose....but held in place with
> a good cotter pin. In fact, the hub plate (that the nut hold
> in) was out, maybe a thread width and a half.
>    That hub plate is duly tapped back into place, hub nut
> is tightened (using a very dull chisel) to bang it into good
> cotter pin hole alignment, and there's no squeals after two
> test spins around the block.
>   Is it possible THAT was cause of squeals?    Or, maybe
> too early to tell?
> 
> type3 at vwtype3.org
> Subject: [T3] Fan Belt or Not?
> 
> 
> T-III,
>  Std. FI '71----? I thought that a strange squeal coming
> from rear of 
> car was the fan belt, so I changed it.??? There's still a
> squeal.?? Belt
>  tightness is correct.? 
> 
> ? It sounds like two turkeys serenading 
> each other...not too screechy, but loud. ? And it stays at
> same pitch no
>  matter what car speed. ? ?? BUT...a friend in the passenger
> seat the 
> other day thought the squeal was more like from the right
> rear wheel 
> area.? ?? If so, how can the squeal not change pitch
> depending on speed 
> and wheel rotation?
> Squeal never happens at idle, even if revved.
> 
> ? What in rear wheel or suspension area or something could
> squeal like that?
> 
> One
>  more thing.?? Apparently the dowel, or dowels that hold
> bearings in 
> their crankcase positions have, over time, widened their
> holes in the 
> case so that I now have a little too much in and out play in
> the fan 
> pulley.? Will have to put in my one remaining spare engine
> one fine 
> day.?? Could that extra play in the fan account for belt
> squeals?...or 
> other squeals? ? ? ? (It accounts for the rattlesnake noise
> that also 
> comes and goes...but....)
> 
> Could the slight excess end-play cause the crankshaft oil
> seal to squeal?
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