Squeezing Noise - 1991 Miata

do you meal 'squealing' possibly? I'll assume so, there are products that you can spray on the belt (called belt dressing) or you can take the poor mans way out by carefully trying to let a bar of soap rub against the underside edges of the belt as the engine is running. This MIGHT help. Another thing could be the belt is too tight or, it could be a bearing on the alternator or waterpump that's squealing like a belt usually does.

Good luck, Chris

"Chris D'Agnolo" wrote in news:b558f$44690b99$471d48fd$ snipped-for-privacy@ALLTEL.NET:

I'll bet that's what he meals....

Can we start an entire thread consisting entirely of typos? Sure we caan!

ya, no ploblem.Oops.

Chris

I'm shure you mint "opps."

oh, of corse!

Chris

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Patt

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You win. It took maybe half a second longer at the most to read that post than it would have if every word had been spelled correctly. That is a bit scary.

Pat

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There are a couple of belts on my '90; I don't know about yours. Any one can squeal. Rubber actually has a negative temperature coefficient, which means that they get tighter as they get hot. That's probably why the squeal goes away. It's not so easy to tell if they are properly tightened unless you have some sort of gage. Also, if the belt is worn, I suppose it could squeal even if it is reasonably tight.

You can tighten it (or them...if more than one, I suggest you do this one at a time) and see if it makes a difference. If these belts have been on the car for a long time, you might want to go through the additional (but not all that much) effort of changing them.

Ken

"KWS" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

Another cause of squeal is something binding. If one or more of the pulleys the belt turns doesn't turn freely the belt will slip.

Common cause used to be the old GM long style AC compressors that got harder and harder to turn as they went bad. It was gradual and folks used to just tighten up belts to fix the problem which was a temporary fix and caused additional damage as the belts were too tight.

Moral: Check the belts, if they're good and the tension is correct you're probably better off not tightening them up more, look for the problem before doing that.