On my car it was the beginning of an intake manifold gasket leak. The performance issues took a little more time to manifest.
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He didn't say to use brake cleaner; He said carb cleaner.
Good thing you thought about it before doing it.
Brake cleaner would eat up lots of other stuff on your engine that you wouldn't want to eat up.
Good thing you thought about it before doing it.
Brake cleaner would eat up lots of other stuff on your engine that you wouldn't want to eat up.
V2- you want to spray the carb cleaner around each intake runner, where they mate up to the cylinder head(s). Basically you are spraying around and under the main intake chamber & listening for a change in idle. I wouldn't spray WD40 anywhere around a belt driven accessory. You'll wind-up slipping & destroying your serpentine belt. You cannot get at the water pump unless you pull all the front accessories off the engine & pull the timing belt covers. The water pump is burried in there & is driven by the timing belt. That pulley up top near where the radiator hoses go into the block is not the water pump (I thought the same thing at first ). That's just an idler pulley. G/luck
Joel
). That's just an idler pulley. G/luckJoel
Howdy. Hey guys. V2, sorry, I misunderstood your post on the WD40. But still, Joel is right. Don't use this on your pulley, it's a bad idea.
Joel you are obviously more familiar with the lay-out on these motors. On the idler pulley, just in case you did not know, most of these have a bearing in the back which you can remove. Take it off the vehicle and see if there is a clip holding in a bearing. If so, you are in luck. So, don't go out and buy a whole new pulley assembly unless it's damaged in some way. There may be some interchangeability here also if you can find one in a junk yard, but for the cost, I'd personally go for a new bearing. Good luck.
-Kevin
Joel you are obviously more familiar with the lay-out on these motors.
On the idler pulley, just in case you did not know, most of these have a bearing in the back which you can remove. Take it off the vehicle and see if there is a clip holding in a bearing. If so, you are in luck. So, don't go out and buy a whole new pulley assembly unless it's damaged in some way. There may be some interchangeability here also if you can find one in a junk yard, but for the cost, I'd personally go for a new bearing. Good luck.-Kevin
This morning I removed the belt and ran the engine for 20 seconds, No noise. Put the belt back... noise
Sprayed a little bit of WD40 on the beaaring: change of tone. I did not put too many, it goes every where. So if there is a long term side effect to the WD 40 on the belt I will let you know shortly
Just an iddler: That makes sense I could not figure out why the bolt was not turning with the pulley. That a good news, it mean I will be able to fix my problem for just a few dollars.
So thats a good truck it always gives a warning when something is broken and you can fix it with your pocket change. ( I am not waiting for your comments on this one, just let me dream) :wink:
THANK YOU EVERYBODY
Sprayed a little bit of WD40 on the beaaring: change of tone. I did not put too many, it goes every where. So if there is a long term side effect to the WD 40 on the belt I will let you know shortly
Just an iddler: That makes sense I could not figure out why the bolt was not turning with the pulley. That a good news, it mean I will be able to fix my problem for just a few dollars.
So thats a good truck it always gives a warning when something is broken and you can fix it with your pocket change. ( I am not waiting for your comments on this one, just let me dream) :wink:
THANK YOU EVERYBODY
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