SenatorKang
8th April 2008, 11:09 AM
Gentlemen (also ladies),
A similar thread to the one about the belt tensioner, but slightly different and Idon't know what the deal is with hijacking other peoples threads so I figured "i will go the safe route and make my own."
300TDi keeps shredding serpentine belts. First time at the top of a big hill, second time was when I tried to put the spare one on, at the top of the same hill. 3rd time on the way to work, slightly rainy. Was told that the PAS pump or the water pump (shame on me, I can't remember!) was buggered, so had a recon one put on. That was about 4 months ago. Shredded another belt yesterday (well, slowly, over about 3 weeks. It finally let go when - wait for it - going through a mud puddle, in the rain. Am I just imagining this pattern?) And yet another one this morning after I replaced it last night.
OK. So it has 7PK1595 belt, unfortunately the Disco is at home (where I'm not) so I can't see if the tensioner is the right one, as mentioned in the other thread, but I do remember hearing that the tensioner had been "fixed" at some point - no mention of what was wrong with it (maybe a bearing?).
The belt looks as if it has simply skipped a groove on a pulley, I suspect its the water pump - that is the one I'm looking at, right? The top-rightmost pulley, the first one to the right of the tensioner (when looking from the front - where else would you look from?). Now then, on the water pump the belt is at the front of the pulley, leaving the rearmost groove exposed. On the other pulleys, the frontmost groove is exposed. This leads me to believe that it is indeed this pump which is buggered.
Apologies for my non-technical words, I know enough about cars to look and see if something isn't quite right, not enough to fully diagnose the problem and tell other people about it...
Any ideas, confirmations of my theory or other advice (apart from buy a V8 - believe me, I considered it!)
Kim
A similar thread to the one about the belt tensioner, but slightly different and Idon't know what the deal is with hijacking other peoples threads so I figured "i will go the safe route and make my own."
300TDi keeps shredding serpentine belts. First time at the top of a big hill, second time was when I tried to put the spare one on, at the top of the same hill. 3rd time on the way to work, slightly rainy. Was told that the PAS pump or the water pump (shame on me, I can't remember!) was buggered, so had a recon one put on. That was about 4 months ago. Shredded another belt yesterday (well, slowly, over about 3 weeks. It finally let go when - wait for it - going through a mud puddle, in the rain. Am I just imagining this pattern?) And yet another one this morning after I replaced it last night.
OK. So it has 7PK1595 belt, unfortunately the Disco is at home (where I'm not) so I can't see if the tensioner is the right one, as mentioned in the other thread, but I do remember hearing that the tensioner had been "fixed" at some point - no mention of what was wrong with it (maybe a bearing?).
The belt looks as if it has simply skipped a groove on a pulley, I suspect its the water pump - that is the one I'm looking at, right? The top-rightmost pulley, the first one to the right of the tensioner (when looking from the front - where else would you look from?). Now then, on the water pump the belt is at the front of the pulley, leaving the rearmost groove exposed. On the other pulleys, the frontmost groove is exposed. This leads me to believe that it is indeed this pump which is buggered.
Apologies for my non-technical words, I know enough about cars to look and see if something isn't quite right, not enough to fully diagnose the problem and tell other people about it...
Any ideas, confirmations of my theory or other advice (apart from buy a V8 - believe me, I considered it!)
Kim