Car was parked for the better half of the week. It was very cold.
Upon startup I got his whistle of a sound. It went away more or less after 10 min of driving. I sprayed WD40 to the idler and power steering pulley thinking that might be it, but no. That did not help.
Can it be a fan clutch? It never gave any suspicion. Car doesn't sound like an air plane.
you can either remove the pulley from the arm, or the arm/pulley assembly then remove pulley from arm on a bench. be sure your hex socket is crisp and tight, or you will need a new bolt for the pulley to the arm.
WP is not impossible job, but there will be many other things to do while you do the WP since you have to take it down to the crank basically. If you do it, replace the crank seal while you have the chance.
WEll, came back from work, started the car and everything is back to normal.
Either the wd40 i sprayed on the idler pulley and power steering pulley worked or I dont know.
I sure hope it wasn' the water pump. I looked up whats involved in changing that and almost had a heart attack.
Ill chime in as things develop.
This is similar to a convo with wife.
Wife: hey, we gonna have a talk soon.
ME: the hell we will. Talk now woman, or else.
Wife: well, perhaps its not that important.
ME: good, I wasnt going to to take the conversation seriously anyhow.
and so on.
Wish the problem just let me have it so I could deal with it. But no, it wasnt to play hide and seek.
Well fine. Im armed to the teeth!!!
Wife: hey, we gonna have a talk soon.
ME: the hell we will. Talk now woman, or else.
Wife: well, perhaps its not that important.
ME: good, I wasnt going to to take the conversation seriously anyhow.
Depends on what the particular topic may be :| and if one day she doesn't come home from work . . . . . you KNOW what the topic WAS. If you notice not long after that she's gaining a little . . . . . congrats Daddy :wink
Take the belt off and spin everything by hand. the one that doesn't spin smoothly is the problem. Be sure to check the fan clutch separately from the fan pulley (hold the pulley and spin the fan).
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