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Old Aug 10, 2010 | 11:11 PM
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Serpentine belt.

So I was out runnin through some mud holes the other day when i seemed to of lost power steering, then the battery light lit up and so on.
Same thing happened today, after just a little but of mud and one good bump she pops off, I need a new belt i know that much but now it is whining like crazy and the power steering pump sounds like an angry gorilla.

My question is, is there something wrong besides just the belt, tensioner?
Is the power steering pump now shot?
 
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Old Aug 20, 2010 | 11:15 AM
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On serpentine belt applications, ALL pulleys must be aligned up almost dead on , or they will wine and drive you crazy. Sounds like its possible that something got caught under the belt while you were in the mud, and may have slighly bent one of the pulleys such as the power steering, this pulley is a piata to get off and back on. I had an older LTD that had a slightly bend in the pulley and it drove me nuts. I took a hammer and gave a whap to the "high" side in hopes to help straighten it out a lil, w/out taking it off. It did help a lot. Remember this is a sheet metal stamping and can be bent or out of parallelism, esp. with the cheaper thinner steel these days. Thats prob. what happened in your case, assuming all the grooves are aligned up.....rossford
 
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Old Aug 20, 2010 | 02:33 PM
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I used a roofing square and checked alignment per request of my father, the pulleys all seem to line up. The power steering still squeals a little, but no where near as much as it did. It has about an 1/8 of an inch of play in the pulley so I'm assuming it will need replaced soon.
Filling the power steering pump to the correct level took care of the squeals for the most part though :o
 
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