[s-cars] engine trouble HELP

[McCall, Randy]

Elijah - Fortunately I haven't had to do this for my avant, but Fred
Munro must have because he wrote up a pretty nice how-to on S-Cars about
rebuilding the bearing tensioner (provided the spring was in decent
shape) using a new high temp service bearing.  Cost at $26CDN in 2004
was a lot less than new.

-Randy

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> elijah- had same problem roughly 2 years ago on my avant. the 
> aluminum 
> bracket theat has the fan/ ac comp/power steer had bad 
> bearing. the bearing 
> is not replaceable- you will destroy the mount trying to 
> remove. bought a 
> used assym from chris @ force 5. i think the mount is about $ 
> 400 from 
> dealer.  - rob
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> From: <elijahallen92 at aol.com>
> To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 11:54 AM
> Subject: [s-cars] engine trouble HELP
> 
> 
> > Hey guys, about two weeks ago I started to hear a squeel 
> coming from the 
> > front of the engine. It was intermittent and I assumed it 
> was a viscous 
> > fan bearing or maybe the ac compressor. In the last two 
> days the noise has 
> > gotten very loud with lots of squeeling and vibration and 
> thumps. I still 
> > thought it was the fan and today I was turning it around in 
> the driveway 
> > to get ready to tear into it and it stalled. I tried to 
> start it and it 
> > won't turn over and the battery is fine. The timing belt is 
> fine and the 
> > cam chain looks good. I am at a loss to what happened. Any 
> idea's? Thanks,
> >
> > Elijah
> > 
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