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MoNkEy MaGiC
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   10th Oct 04 at 09:43   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

usually on cold days, straight after i start the engine i can hear a constant loud high pitched screeching sound from around the Alternator area?

it only lasts 2-3minutes and then is fine!!
i had the cambelt, alternator belt and the tensioner pulley for the alternator belt replaced 8 months ago???
broster
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10th Oct 04 at 09:51   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

u need to tighten up the altinator belt mate, easy enuff, just slacken the altinaotr off leaver the altinator out a bit and tighten it up abit, ull know what i mean when u look at it
MoNkEy MaGiC
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10th Oct 04 at 11:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

hmm i dont know what you mean by "tighten it up" is it a bolt or screw that needs tightening?
i will have a look at it soon

i thought it might be somthing worse than just loose belt???
like the alternator busted or loose bearing inside it or somthing???
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10th Oct 04 at 12:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

you undo the bolt at the top at the alternator push the alternator back and tighten it up while pushing it back a bit

might aswell get a new belt aswell only cost a couple of quid
Rocky
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10th Oct 04 at 14:37   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

yep too right mine sounded like this bought new few quid about 2 and sounds well nice now even starting up in cold weather even now got a bran new battery as it wasnt holding its charge thought me alternator gone lucky enough it didnt phhhhew
MoNkEy MaGiC
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10th Oct 04 at 14:58   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

SHITE! i dropped a 13mm ratchet tip under the alternator and cant get it or see it!! is this dangerous???

i cudnt get the alternator to move either! its c16xe by the way
cudnt get the ratched at the bolt that holds the alternator to the metal support part???
Rocky
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10th Oct 04 at 17:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

are crap man do not drive the car mate find asap the way the light is changing get a torch
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theres a secondry bracket and a adjuster bar on the c16xe iirc
MoNkEy MaGiC
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10th Oct 04 at 18:11   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by DJ Rocky
are crap man do not drive the car mate find asap the way the light is changing get a torch


SHITE!
i took for spin round my block to see if it will fall out!! but nothing!

quote:
Originally posted by Adam-D
theres a secondry bracket and a adjuster bar on the c16xe iirc


yeah i found this one right underneath the alternator! bit of a mission to get at!! might have to jack car up!????
Rocky
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10th Oct 04 at 18:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

probs dudehope u got plenty of light at this time of the day
MoNkEy MaGiC
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10th Oct 04 at 18:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

its not the whole ratchet tool under it!

just the 13mm sprocket has fallen of and under the alternator/inlet-manifold somwere???? i treid starting the car and jerking it forth and back but it fell deeper so that i cudnt see it anymore???

its pitch black outside now!!

[Edited on 10-10-2004 by MoNkEy MaGiC]
Siberia
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10th Oct 04 at 19:58   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i have to tighten mine up actually... there was a loverly smeel of burning rubber off it last night
blundey
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11th Oct 04 at 00:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

dude i tell u engine bays areblack holes! beardy dropped a flare jet in my engine bay and we never found it after looking for about an hour.
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21st Dec 04 at 11:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

lol pld
MoNkEy MaGiC
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   21st Dec 04 at 11:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

ok two months later i got that damn 13m socket out lol!! was surprised it was still their!
im still having trouble getting the alternator loose! dont know which bolts to take of?

TTT
Corsa^Dan
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21st Dec 04 at 12:02   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

how have i posted b4 u, i red ya reply and then posted

hmm CS ghost.
MoNkEy MaGiC
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21st Dec 04 at 12:08   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

oh i was editing the message but deleted it instead and reposted lol

TTT

 
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