Squeaky fan belts

[slatstaks]

Has anyone had problems with fan belt noise?

[Storm Trooper]

Nope.....

[Buzzy]

Yep

[slatstaks]

Had them re tensioned twice, tried belt squeak, wd40, soap but the noise keeps returning. Have you had any luck with the problem?

[Buzzy]

havent tried anything as set. Only seams to do it when cold

[subi_man]

My theory is they only squeak on Tritons that don't see enough mud

[slatstaks]

They are twice as bad after a day in the mud or a water crossing, there goes that theory

[rick]

i had a realy bad squeek on my way to wave rock this weekend,i narowed it down to the passenger seat where i spotted the hand brake ........ bring back the dunking chairs.

[Homer]

No belt squeak, but after about the first 3km's I was already sick to death of the roaring radiator fan. Can't even hear the V6 over it in lower gears sometimes

[King Triton]

Mine has just started to get the fan belt squeak 28,000km on the clock, mine is the same as buzzy only happens when cold will wait for the 30,000km service and get them to check ot out.

[Greedy]

My theory is they only squeak on Tritons that don't see enough mud

This theory's no good Subi. Mine still hasn't seen mud (what's rain again??? ) but the fan belts are fine.

[Hozza]

Experiencing the same issue, air con belt squeaks really bad when cold. Fitted all new belts, re tensioned and covered the lot in silicone spray and they still squeak! Any one found a solution? really starting to piss me off!

[Cowboy Dave]

Did you replace with genuine or aftermarket?

I bought aftermarket to replace mine but when they went to fit them one of the aftermarket ones was slightly out in terms of size so I ended up with one genuine and one not. No more squeak though.

So maybe if you went aftermarket you got one slightly too loose?

I'm not sure why you'd spray them with silicon? I always thought you sprayed belts with belt grip which sort of implies grip rather than lubrication.

[viking shippy]

Sounds like it's your harmonic balancer that's squeeking..

[Cowboy Dave]

Why would it only happen when cold? Mine used to only do it at idle or carpark speed but only when cold?

[viking shippy]

In the early days of my harmonic balancer wearing out that's what it did ...
I'd say it was the vulcanised rubber warming up to a point until it got hot..Dave remember the trip up to zig zag when mine wouldn't shut up! till hot..
that was the harmonic and all the "experts" (lol) said it was the belts or the idler pulleys....

[RHKTriton]

I'd be leaning heavily to the balancer. I only spotted mine when I was greasing the front prop shaft and had to have the engine running - not a pretty sight seeing the pulley travelling in and out a few mm.

As VS suggested, they don't initially just squeal full time.

Re all the sprays - waste of money - if a belt is actually causing noise, its stuffed or on the way out.

[Hozza]

Cheers for the input VS and others. Just inspected it from under the car and looks like the HB has a fair wobble to it.... So I'll be ordering a new one! I live up Cape York and you blokes have saved me a fair bit of coin to have a mechanic look at it, buggers charge like wounded bulls up this way!

[nobeachwork]

Dropped my ute of to the dealer today cause i had a squeal coming from the front of the engine and a weird vibration after a recent trip. Just had a call before to say that the harmonic balancer belt was fried. They reckon this has never happened before and they want to keep my car overnight to try work out how this happened so they can claim on warranty. Anyone else have this belt fully let go???

[AnOldFart]

Dropped my ute of to the dealer today cause i had a squeal coming from the front of the engine and a weird vibration after a recent trip. Just had a call before to say that the harmonic balancer belt was fried. They reckon this has never happened before and they want to keep my car overnight to try work out how this happened so they can claim on warranty. Anyone else have this belt fully let go???

Look -up- 3 posts above....!

[RHKTriton]

What's a harmonica belt?

One or all of my belts have become noisey - probably time to replace with 160k km on them

Still find it illogical to put sprays on the belts, aren't you you aiming for maximum grip?