bthomas5207f
New Member
About 2 months ago I put a new altenator on my car. All was going well and I drive it several thousands miles. At the time I put a new belt on as well. The new belt did start squeling a bit, but thought nothing of it al it stopped as soon as I started to move.
However....
The other day driving down the Highway the belt comes flying off. I pull over to find out that the nut had come off holding the pulley on and the pulley had come loose and thrown then belt.
The altenator was a reman unit I bought from Autozone with a liftime warranty.
A day before all this happened I noticed that the altenator seemed noisey ands was worried that the noise I was hearing where the bearing in the pulley going.
My question is this. Has anyone had this happen before? Did I just get a bad part from Autozone or did I somehow over tighten the belt causing this all to happen?
I am replacing the altenator tomorrow with another one covered under the warrenty and just would like so ideas before this happens all over again!
Thanks!
However....
The other day driving down the Highway the belt comes flying off. I pull over to find out that the nut had come off holding the pulley on and the pulley had come loose and thrown then belt.
The altenator was a reman unit I bought from Autozone with a liftime warranty.
A day before all this happened I noticed that the altenator seemed noisey ands was worried that the noise I was hearing where the bearing in the pulley going.
My question is this. Has anyone had this happen before? Did I just get a bad part from Autozone or did I somehow over tighten the belt causing this all to happen?
I am replacing the altenator tomorrow with another one covered under the warrenty and just would like so ideas before this happens all over again!
Thanks!