A/C Condensor/belt chirp

[Kneale Brownson]

Did you try tightening the adjustment on the belt slightly?  These belts
can stretch a bit with age as well as wear some.

At 10:22 PM 9/13/2004 -0400, Jon wrote:
>Recently I had noticed a chirp while shifting, I was thinking it might
>be my Bailey BPV until recently. I recently clicked the A/C on while I
>had the windows down and I heard the chirp. I did it again and again
>and the chirp repeated every time I turned the A/C *on*. No chirp when
>going from A/C mode to "Econ" mode.
>
>It is alot louder when the RPMs are higher, when the RPMs are lower
>the chirp is much more subtle. It does it just about everytime. Is
>this an indication that a belt is showing some wear or possibly the
>condensor getting ready to die?
>