throwing power steering belts

5L · 09-02-2006, 11:35 PM

hey i had this problem on the way to work i threw my car back to second and put my foot down to get through a set of lights and it threw my power steering belt off, i got the raa out to put it back on (i didnt have my tools with me) as the things a bit of a tank to drive and 225 tyres dont help. it ran fine after that, then on the way home from work someone was doing 40 in a 60 so i threw it back to third to get by and it did it again. what could be the problem here, the belt was tight nothing seems loose.

EA2BA · 09-02-2006, 11:37 PM

sounds like something is going out of alignment.

5L · 09-02-2006, 11:38 PM

yeh i dont know what though. nothing is bent (i dont think so anyway) what should i check for.

XRated · 09-02-2006, 11:41 PM

This has happened to me a few times in the past. I found my belt was a bit too big and ended up fitting one from an EA or XH or something...

5L · 09-02-2006, 11:44 PM

yeh maybe it has been stretched, wot would one from an ea and xh do- they are the same belt. might just buy a new one see wot happens

XRated · 10-02-2006, 12:47 AM

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Originally Posted by eb5speed

yeh maybe it has been stretched, wot would one from an ea and xh do- they are the same belt. might just buy a new one see wot happens

Everytime I've gone to get an ED belt, they're always too big. It's weird, EA/XH belt (can't remember which one) fits nicely on mine though - no idea why..

!Gn|T|0n · 10-02-2006, 01:33 AM

[Rollin]

get a new belt, yours is stuffed.

IIRC you can get them from holden (shock, horror!) they are an AC Delco item and hence, not the spawn of the devil, they are very cheap and fixed my problem too - in 2004 sometime my car started throwing belts - went through prob 4 of them, changed power steer pump pulley, crank pulley, idler pulley, then tried a different brand of belt, never had a problem since, and have done maybe 40,000 on the current one.

[/Rollin]

347Stroker · 10-02-2006, 01:41 AM

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Originally Posted by !Gn|T|0n

[Rollin]

get a new belt, yours is stuffed.

IIRC you can get them from holden (shock, horror!) they are an AC Delco item and hence, not the spawn of the devil, they are very cheap and fixed my problem too - in 2004 sometime my car started throwing belts - went through prob 4 of them, changed power steer pump pulley, crank pulley, idler pulley, then tried a different brand of belt, never had a problem since, and have done maybe 40,000 on the current one.

[/Rollin]

Sign out as ignition and back in as yourself dan....its just silly....like TQE's

Brent79 · 10-02-2006, 02:45 AM

Also had the same problem.... racing a calais went to turn the corner and nearly plowed into the bushes. when i checked the belt, it was kinda hardened and twisted so a new belt and its sitting on there fine!

Brent

5L · 10-02-2006, 07:14 PM

yeah cheers for the feed back guys, the belt looked new, i had a further inspection in found some deep cracks in it, and its a bit hard. ill buy a new one tomorrow and all should be sweet

galapogos01 · 11-02-2006, 11:08 AM

also check the pump is aligned with the harmonic balancer. sometimes a few washers to push out the pump can help solve this problem too...

niko · 11-02-2006, 11:09 AM

mine was eating my belt, it was the balancer, on my old ea.

5L · 11-02-2006, 01:36 PM

nah alls sweet now i brought a new belt and gave the car decent abuse for bout 10 minutes round the backstreets and the belt is still on there so thats the main thing.

5L · 11-02-2006, 04:03 PM

nup looks like i spoke to soon, all i did was downgear to 2nd at bout 55-60 km/h and the belt came off, i have checked all the bolts for the power steering and stuff and they are all tight, so how do i check for allignment, i sorta did an inpection by looking at em to see if they were alligned and they all looks ok.

eb91xr6 · 11-02-2006, 04:25 PM

i had the same problem i just lined up all the pullys and never had a belt go again

5L · 11-02-2006, 09:23 PM

how do u line up all the pullys

Mr_4.0 · 13-02-2006, 12:58 PM

when this happened to me it as the harmonic balancer. check that first. its easy to tell when its gone. i shredded 2 belts b4 i relised

neb · 13-02-2006, 01:11 PM

i had this problem and it was annoying me for quite a while. i went through a fair few new power steering belts. i found out eventually it was actually the belt i was using... the belt was the right length but for some reason it had ribs in it and was just a tiny bit too wide for the pulleys causing the belt to twist after a while and fly off. even though this was the belt they listed for it.

so lesson learnt don't buy belts from supercheap auto.. lol

5L · 13-02-2006, 01:39 PM

the belt i got is a bosch, so its a decent one. from putting it back on last time i did the thing up f@&king tight, it hasnt come off yet and been driving round for two like it. only thing is its to tight and now the steering feels a tad heavy and car feels slower.