[V8] V8 steam engine

[Seamus O'Carey]

Yeah, it's a real pain to get the fan off without the belt installed.  I
ended up getting it done on my pearl car, but it took a lot of blood, sweat,
and swearing.  If possible I would recommend putting the belt back on to
hold the pulley still.

Seamus

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Mark Kalbskopf <gbmarc at cox.net> wrote:

> OK, so I pulled the serpentine belt off and  .. .da dah!   bliss,
> the sound stopped.
> So that narrows it down to the alternator, or the viscous fan, because
> it's definitely something physically close to the passenger side
> timing belt cover.
> The alternator spins freely, the fan sounds rough.
> So I tried removing the fan. It's a pig. The nut is supposed to be a
> left hand thread, but I can't keep the pulley still while I put
> tremendous force on the big nut.
> I'm holding the big nut with an adjustable wrench because I don't have
> an open-ended anywhere near that size, and of course there's simply no
> room.
>
> Once the fan is off, does that pulley come off with those 3 little
> bolts?
>
> I was hoping to re-install the serpentine belt without the viscous
> fan, and see if the noise was gone, but right now I'm stuck and it's
> freezing!
>
> Mark.
>
>
>
> On Jan 2, 2011, at 7:37 PM, Ed Kellock wrote:
>
> > Pull the accessory drive belt and run the engine.  This will isolate
> > the
> > timing belt rollers, bearings, water pump, etc. and possibly yield
> > some good
> > news.
> >
> > Ed
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: v8-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:v8-bounces at audifans.com] On
> > Behalf Of
> > Mark Kalbskopf
> > Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 12:56 PM
> > To: v8 at audifans.com
> > Subject: [V8] V8 steam engine
> >
> >
> > OK, 210K miles on the car and the timing belt, idler bearings etc were
> > last replaced at 160K.
> > For some time I've had a noise coming from the timing belt area, upper
> > left when I face the engine from the front.
> > It sounded like a roller bearing or something. Well, I've been
> > ignoring it until now, but its beginning to sound like a steam engine
> > with a regular chugging and various rough /grinding noises.
> > Is this the idler pulley and adjusting rollers going bad, or does
> > whatever the camshaft spins in, go bad?
> >
> > (And I was trying so hard to get the car through until the end of her
> > last year at college!)
> >
> > Anyone want to buy a V8 steam engine?
> >
> > Mark.
>
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