[Shotimes] PLEASE help me diagnose problem!

[Brian E. Harris]

What belt?

Is this the mighty serpentine belt that the goofs at Jiffy Lube said they
could replace with their pry-bar?

-bh

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Ron Nottingham wrote:

> Sounds (smells?) like you have fried the clutch, and may be looking at a
> clutch replacement soon.  You exhaust malady is probably where the y-pipe
> and the resonator are bolted together, check it out.
>
> BTW, was your ricer buddy envious?
>
> The A/C deal, sounds like it's locked up.  With the smoke coming from that
> area, you may have wore the belt down.  This may even cause your charging
> problem, since the belt may not be turning the alternator much.
>
> Ron N. - Dalton, GA
> 90 SHO
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian E. Harris" <sho-sc@sho-sc.com>
>
>
> > When it rains, it pours, I guess.
> >
> > First up, with the '92:
> >
> > Ricer that I work with and I were out dinking around, and doing burnouts.
> > At one point, I dropped the clutch, and nothing happened, other than the
> > revs hit the limiter, and the clutch got stinky.
> >
> > Car still seems to drive fine, and clutch still seems to work just fine,
> > save for the stinky clutch smell.
> >
> > During that same time, it appears I flexed something wrong, and the
> > exhaust has a leak in it now, that causes my car to sound like my
> > co-worker's CRX+fartpipe.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Next, with the '93:
> >
> > The weird growly/rumbly/rattly noise apparently is the AC compressor or
> > something.  It stops making the noise if you turn off the defroster, or
> > you rev the engine higher.  This noise doesn't happen at highway speeds.
> >
> > Next, I have smoke coming from that area (belts, etc).  Can't tell if it's
> > oil or belt smoking...
> >
> > I've also been fighting with a charging problem, which may simply mean
> > it's time for a new alternator...the car seemed to hold a charge from
> > driving, but after jumpstarting it again today, and driving for a while,
> > when I parked it (and a good quantity of smoke started coming from the
> > belts area), I shut it off, then tried to start it, and it has absolutely
> > NO power.
> >
> > Haven't yet attempted to restart it.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > -bh
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