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This is a continuation of trying to figure out why my Sprite overheated last weekend.
When I went to see if the belt needed replacing, I could clearly see why the car overheated. The belt was so loose that I could almost pull it up and over the alternator pulley. There must have been 2.5 inches of play in it.
How could this be I asked myself. Aha! The alternator bracket (underneath the alternator) had worked it's way completely loose. Which, by the way, was just installed by the person typing this message about a week earlier. So, I went back and re-tightened everything down nice and tight so the belt only had the approximate .5" slack in it.
Fired it up, warmed it up and took it around town for 15 - 20 minutes and it was perfectly fine. No overheating, no flickering "prepare to walk" light, no funky "hot" smell making its way into the cockpit at all.
Sometimes, these things are a lot simpler than they appear to be.
Joel
When I went to see if the belt needed replacing, I could clearly see why the car overheated. The belt was so loose that I could almost pull it up and over the alternator pulley. There must have been 2.5 inches of play in it.
How could this be I asked myself. Aha! The alternator bracket (underneath the alternator) had worked it's way completely loose. Which, by the way, was just installed by the person typing this message about a week earlier. So, I went back and re-tightened everything down nice and tight so the belt only had the approximate .5" slack in it.
Fired it up, warmed it up and took it around town for 15 - 20 minutes and it was perfectly fine. No overheating, no flickering "prepare to walk" light, no funky "hot" smell making its way into the cockpit at all.
Sometimes, these things are a lot simpler than they appear to be.
Joel