[andrejko22]

I just finished working on my 97 ford probe's alternator belt, it snapped, so i had to replace it. I'm pretty sure the protege angine is very similar if not identical with mine and yes, the puleys filled up with a derbit, rubber and string from the old belt! It just tightend around the puley and i had to scrape the pieces out. I can see somebody not checking for left over belt pieces in the grooves and just putting the new belt over that crap. I'm pretty sure that with the modern "gator grtip" designe belts it would eventualy distribute itself to the other pulleys. - just thought to add this observation to what might have been those derbits