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Old 12-25-19, 07:00 AM
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Originally Posted by CLLEXUSS
If your radiator hose busted and saturated the pulleys with fluid you could still have some of that crap on your pulleys and then it affects your new belt too, even a mild dish detergent with a brush can work a lot of that out then rinse with water, then there's belt conditioner spray you can get for 5 bucks or so and try that too but yes seems like your pulleys just got all sprayed with radiator fluid and you got a to figure a way to work all that out shouldn't be too difficult just a bit of a pita. I imagine eventually it'll just quiet down on it's own over time if you did nothing.
+1 on a thorough cleaning on all the ribbed pulleys. Residual material can cause all kinds of noise.
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Cleaned pulleys with water then brake cleaner then installed new belt ...noise gone yay
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