2billydavies
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hi everyone,
so my 58 TR3a has been running perfect for months. almost driving it daily to work, blah blah blah...
however, the last week during a midnight trip to the beach the serpentine belt started slipping, smoking like crazy, melting, and eventually dying. It didn't rip in half, so I did make it home,
but I had to replace it. No big deal, took 2 minutes.
My first trip in the car after the new belt install was fine. But I started noticing that with each time I started it, the battery sounded weaker, and weaker, and weaker... until the other day, it was dead.
This is a brand new battery. Bought it 4 months ago. Nothing wrong with the battery. I also noticed, after the belt install, that that when I had the headlights on the battery charging gauge was slowly but surely
going down into the negative rather than staying the middle or a little on the plus side. So the battery dying wasn't really a surprise as much as it was a disappointment. I knew it was coming.
So my question is this: Could the stress from the belt melting, stripping, and burning up somehow affected my generator? I believe the issue is the generator is dead. I did notice, when I was installing the new belt, that
if I spun the pulley on the generator counter clockwise, there was a distinct "buzzing" sound coming from it. Only counter clockwise, though. There was no sound at all when spun clockwise. I never noticed this buzz before so I'm thinking
that may have something to do with it.
In any case, any thoughts on this? Anything else I should check before buying a new one??
thanks!
so my 58 TR3a has been running perfect for months. almost driving it daily to work, blah blah blah...
however, the last week during a midnight trip to the beach the serpentine belt started slipping, smoking like crazy, melting, and eventually dying. It didn't rip in half, so I did make it home,
but I had to replace it. No big deal, took 2 minutes.
My first trip in the car after the new belt install was fine. But I started noticing that with each time I started it, the battery sounded weaker, and weaker, and weaker... until the other day, it was dead.
This is a brand new battery. Bought it 4 months ago. Nothing wrong with the battery. I also noticed, after the belt install, that that when I had the headlights on the battery charging gauge was slowly but surely
going down into the negative rather than staying the middle or a little on the plus side. So the battery dying wasn't really a surprise as much as it was a disappointment. I knew it was coming.
So my question is this: Could the stress from the belt melting, stripping, and burning up somehow affected my generator? I believe the issue is the generator is dead. I did notice, when I was installing the new belt, that
if I spun the pulley on the generator counter clockwise, there was a distinct "buzzing" sound coming from it. Only counter clockwise, though. There was no sound at all when spun clockwise. I never noticed this buzz before so I'm thinking
that may have something to do with it.
In any case, any thoughts on this? Anything else I should check before buying a new one??
thanks!