i noticed a nice little squeal from the engine compartment of my car yesterday while leaving the meet.
it only seems to happen between 2k and 3k rpm
hoping its something simple like the idler pulley or tensioner or sumptin.
it seems that everytime i take the SVT out of the garage, something else goes wrong with it!
I musta cursed ya.
I was saying to Mike "damn, I'm surprised that thing runs considering how infrequently it gets driven"
uh oh, I bad gurl
funny, I think on the way home my car ran the best it has in alittle while, although I still hear something dripping onto the exhaust when I shut the car off, I hope that it is just the valve cover gasket ...
brian..i think tony is right.
kim!
i think i need to smack you!
haha
i am suprised you guys couldnt hear it while driving in front of me thru newport.
brian...that could be condensation building up in the heater box and not draining out.
there should be a drain somehwere on the firewall to allow excess water to drain out of the heater box.
if it is clogged the water will backup in the car and drip in the floor.
had a customer at the garage last year with this problem.
she would come in every couple of weeks when the water starteddrippin on her feet.
i would put a hook made out of stiff wire into the drain and pull out insulation that mice had taken and started making nests with.
about 2 gallons of water would come rushing out tof the drain!
yeah I will have to check that out, just it had never done that before when I have run the AC, like I said the only difference this time was I had the sunroof open and it got pretty hummid as we got into CT, or maybe that was the slight sunburn, either way
I did hear it, but I didn't think much of it, so I didn't bother to question whether it was you or someone else driving near us.
Mike - my SVT used to squeal sometimes in real humid weather until the belt warmed up. I think it was condensation on the belt...
mine did it the whole ride home.
anytime i brought the RPM down near 2-3k
but of course when i got it in the garage i couldnt get it to do it!
but it would do it while i was sittign at lights if i revved it up.
my sunroof isnt opening all the way now, ever since i tried that thingy u guys told me about on how if u press it twice, it goes back..well it barely shut after that, there were alot of pauses in between and I was scared..
Be careful with the double press. Mine stuck open once and it took me the better part of the evening looking at the thing to finally get it closed. The worst part was I have no idea how it resolved itself.
I thought the issue with the sunroof was to NEVER EVER do the double press, risking jamming the mechanism.
well...after i got home today i noticed another funny noise.
the friggin tranny sounds like gooners clutch.
if i place a long prybar against the tranny and listen i can hear clicking.
awaaahhhhh
anyne wanna buy a contour?
how many miles you have elky?
don't say that mike!!!
when's the last time you changed your serp belt? could even be the WP belt squealing.
Does the click go faster with a rev? Maybe flywheel teeth hitting something...
car has 93K
clutch has about 50K (when ford replaced my motor they said the clutch was shot at 40k, but funny thing is, they would not let me see the old clutch)
i didnt notice if the clicking changed with RPM, i didnt look at it much, maybe tonight i will get my arse out in the garage and play around.
as for the serp belt, its got about 10k on it.
