bizarre noise

[Andrew Duane USG]

Hairy green toads from Mars made Simon Allcorn say:

> Just took my 92 90q 2.8 V6 on a 100 miles drive and as I parked it and
> stopped the engine there was the sound of *something* spinning down from
> what sounds like very high rpm - the closet thing I can compare it to is a
> turbo (a previous car was a SAAB 900 Turbo) spinning down after a run ( or
> come to think of it a plane shutting the main engines down after coming to
> rest). Anyway it stopped about 3 seconds after the crank has stopped turning
> and I haven't a clue what it could be. The engine has aircon that dosen't
> work (as I found out yesterday) but we where using it on and off during the
> drive. Not sure how relevant the aircon is but I know next to nothing about
> it.

That sounds like my A/C compressor spinning down....

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