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Yesterday bringing home a load of wood with my F250 i heard a weird "whop whop" noise under the hood.
Stopped and popped it open and the belt is riding up off the pulley and self destructing.
It has 2 different serpintine style belts, one manually tensioned that goes around the alternator, crank and water pump, then another one with a spring tensioner that goes around then AC, PS, Water pump, and crank.
The AC/PS was the problem.
Was only a mile away so i drove it rest of the way, got back and did some looking and the massive bracket that holds the PS pump and AC compressor had cracked around one of the mounting bolts and allowed it to tilt back, causing the belt to ride up.
This bracket is a massive heavy looking piece of i believe aluminum or possibly die cast. Never in my life have i heard of this happening.
I didnt get no weird vibrations or anything...you think it just cracked due to age? If yall think theres an underlying issue id like to check into it before replacing it.
Stopped and popped it open and the belt is riding up off the pulley and self destructing.
It has 2 different serpintine style belts, one manually tensioned that goes around the alternator, crank and water pump, then another one with a spring tensioner that goes around then AC, PS, Water pump, and crank.
The AC/PS was the problem.
Was only a mile away so i drove it rest of the way, got back and did some looking and the massive bracket that holds the PS pump and AC compressor had cracked around one of the mounting bolts and allowed it to tilt back, causing the belt to ride up.
This bracket is a massive heavy looking piece of i believe aluminum or possibly die cast. Never in my life have i heard of this happening.
I didnt get no weird vibrations or anything...you think it just cracked due to age? If yall think theres an underlying issue id like to check into it before replacing it.