Weird whistling noise

[Anonymous]

rite i got a weird whistling noise that ive put down to the timing belt being against the side of me water pump. so i thot id move belt over to get rid of noise. but the belt keeps slippin back agaisnt the water pump and hence noise is still apparent?? neideas wot to do?? cos i dont like my car whistling :(

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[Anonymous]

They tend to run where they want according to the angles of the crank, cam and water pump shafts and the peculiarities of their sprockets. There's not a lot that can be done really apart from swapping your sprockets for different ones. Check however that it isn't the water pump or the cam belt tensioner bearings on the way out first.

[Anonymous]

i just put in a new cam housing and cam then whistling started. so wot i gotta do?
try new water pump first or what??

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[Anonymous]

make it laugh, everyone knows you can't whistle while your laughing !

"I have reservations at Dorcia!"

"Saturday ?"

"Can't"

"I have to return some video tapes"

[Anonymous]

Disassemble as tho' changing the cambelt. Remove the cam sprocket and all of the plastic back plate. Re assemble all pulleys and sprockets associated with cam belt. Get an engineers straight edge (they're about 1m long) and lay it across the top and bottom sprocket. This should help to show if the pulleys are seriously outa aligment. The water pump and tensioner bearing can be checked by testing for excessive free play or excessive rumbling noises. Check Haynes for those.

[Anonymous]

fuck heres hoping new water pump solves the problem :(

dont explain belt moving from as close to engine as possible, me putting it there, then start car and belt settles in another position?? away from where i set it? thats confusing me!

sorry i like to ask dumb annoying questions :D

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[Anonymous]

i think sum one has broken into your car over night and bolted on a T3

hope i've helped

Ged

[Anonymous]

i dont think neone has bolted on a t3 but if anyone wants to feel free :D

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[Anonymous]

It moves back to one place after you have moved it because for some reason the pulleys aren't running square to each other. Imagine 2 cotton reels each with pencils or summink running thru the middle of them to act as shafts with an elastic band stretched between them. If the shafts and the reels are exactly aligned and parallel the band will run in the same place when they are rotated. However if one shaft is not parallel to the other then the band will run to one side along the path of least resistance.

[Anonymous]

saying that could the water pump be knocking the belt?

thanks for the info cp

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[Anonymous]

Its not ur water pump or anything!, its me under ur bonnet "I whistle as i work".....na not realy, where would i hide?

>:) D.E.V.I.L. >:)

[Anonymous]

Dave, its pretty apparent u aint listenin to CP, in his old age he has much wisdom, u obviously want to fit a water pump, so why keep askin wot else, in just about every reply u have posted, u have said summink about the water pump, if u wana change it, change it, if u wanna listen to CP, listen, but dont keep goin on & on.

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[Anonymous]

sorry cp dont mean to sound like that just trying to understand the whole thing thats all.
and when i fit one thing something else breaks so i like to understand everything that could go wrong b4 i fix it.

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[Anonymous]

Lol! No worries. I could show you what I meant in about 5 secs, but on the forum.....
:-/

wisdom??!! Now if only I could remember... drat this "Oldtimers disease":O