Originally Posted by onehundred80
That is not the way to take the tension from the belt. It will work but you stand a very good chance of ruining the socket and you will have a hard time to remove the pulley at a later date.
There is a thread here somewhere and I will look for it.
Here it is;
https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...tml#post610912
Thank you! We were able to drop the belt off the alternator like the "article" said. Great! Now, question please
We were unable to determine any noise/bearing problems when turning the alternator by hand. We wanted to check where the noise is coming from. We put the belt back on. The noise is back and very bad. It's a "rattle". But, here's the thing. It only happens at idle (idler seems find, btw). The rattle has a definate rhythm like vrrrOOM vrrrOOOM over and over while the speed of the belt/pulleys are consistent. I wish I could type this better to make the noise LOL. Let me try again.
The noise is definately a rattle, not a squeal, etc. While in idlvve only. The rattle has a rhythm like RATtle, RATTle, RATtle, RATtle. The caps are when the rattle is loud, then goes soft, then loud, etc etc. Like marbles that are rattling. Ugh. We are about 90% sure it's the alternator, but when when accelerating, the noise goes away? That isn't typical of alt noise, is it?
Gads, I hate this lol