Power Steering Belt Noise

PeterCrowl · Post by **PeterCrowl** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 7:11 pm

The '70 D-100 has developed a terrible PS belt noise. Loud enough to hear from a block away. New belt(s) have not solved the problem...the pulley is in alignment with the crank pulley...
The bracket is kinda wimpy - perhaps it's pulling out of wack under load. It is quiet at idle but any kind of revs or steering load and it goes off. It did not do this on a 1200 mile trip - but right after that it started and has not stopped.

HELP!!!!
Anybody been through this?

Peter

Post by **cowboy** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 10:12 pm

Peter, just dont look at the ps , pulley might , be one of the other ones that the belt pulls on , Or the wimpy bracket , have some one you trust do a power brake , while you look from the side & see if it is the wimpy bracket , but look at all the pulley's , might be the lower ones with the 3 bolts , on the crank

PeterCrowl · Post by **PeterCrowl** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 5:14 am

Thinking it might be one of the others, I put on a short belt that drove just the WP - took the PS pump out of the loop entirely. No noise.

Has to be in the PS pump belt loop but I cannot figure out why it just started up now.

Peter

Post by **POWWAG** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 8:42 pm

Does it yowl only cold, only hot, or all the time? Get it to make noise and real quick take the belt off and see if the pump is hard to turn. The one on my mud racing truck sounds like a cat being backed over in the drive way when I first start it up. I think the pump is binding till it warms up.

Later.....Don

P.S. I love cats and have four of them.

Post by **Hobcobble** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 5:48 am

Did you used to have 5 Don?

John