DASHOCKER

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Howmany of you encouter belt squeal on a cold morning

lexxtasy

Yes sometimes I do experience it but thats only because its very cold like the temp is in the below freezing point < -10 degrees range otherwise it seems to be fine . . .

jonathancl

I do have an extra sqeak on cold mornings, but I have found it is not the belt.

Mine is the top idler pulley.

I have replaced the top idler pulley, but the noise has not gone away.

Only adding lubrication makes it stop and then only temporarily.

HKS_GS430

they sell belt dressing at the auto parts store that will silent that right up.

HKS_GS430

for get my last post didnt know u tried already..

DarKnight

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I had that for a while. I tried lubing the belt but it would only go away for a short time. When I had my 60k mile maintenance done I believe they changed the belt and it went away.

GSteg

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I use to have the squeak, but then I changed my best to the Goodyear Gatorback belts that has grooves in the belt so that it'll bend easier (less noise). Never had a problem with belt squeaking since. But i do have some other squeak that I can't seem to locate.

Kharizma

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i have some squeaking too..just gonna buy a new serpentine belt though to fix that up. mine is old and has never been replaced either lol

BA_GS400

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Mine used to squeak as well. Since replacing the belt, the problem hasn't come back. (it was old)

JeffTsai

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Mine squealed for a little while after I took apart my motor to change out the head gasket. I think I accidentally dripped a few drops of oil on the belt. It went away shortly though.

Benjamin T

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i was raining hard all of last week, and was hot and humid to boot. sure enough my 1 year old belt started squealing on startup and i had to use the belt dressing to make it stop

darchard

I have had an issue with belt noise that I am having looked at tomorrow. Will update.

Scott1258

Hey GSteg,

It's about time for me to change my serpintine belt - Where do I get a Goodyear Gatorback belt? And do you have a part number too?

Also, do you just use the OEM timing belt or is there a better one? Let us all know! Thanks,

Scott

DASHOCKER

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LOL.. the days I used to type in all caps. Anyway, I have a new drivebelt made by Continental Rubber Co. in my trunk if you are interested. I will take pics of it, and post in the classifieds this weekend.

Scott1258

Thanks for the offer dashocker - but I think I want to go with the GY Gatorback this time. I just did a search and found it at Summitt Racing.