[T3] Fan Belt of Not? (squeal)
J. Jonik
j_jonik at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 5 14:09:00 PDT 2012
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?
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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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