Talon tsi alternator

[andrewc897]

hey,

I'm rockin a 91 talon tsi, i just bought it with 123000 mi's on it and the first night i bought the fucking thing i started hearing a squeak from a belt (similar to the sound the belt would make if it was wearing out)then it ate the belt attatched to the alternator...i pulled over and looked under the hood and after the steam cleared(explain later), i noticed that the belt was missing...the guy i bought it from is a mechanic and he put in a new alternator and new belts right before i bought it...and since i didn't have a belt, the design of the belt system is that if that one belt doesn't work none of them do...so i had no alternator, no water pump and it sucked big time...had to like stop evey mile or so and refil the coolant and let it cool of a bit and go another mile ect. all the way home...this morning i had the belt replaced and it ran beautifully until this evening...i drove it all day just fine then tonight i started it up and heard that familiar squeal...anyone have any thoughts on what the hell is going on with this thing????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????

[MrZ]

andrewc897;
Perhaps your water pump is locking up on you? You say the car had a new alternator and belt(s) put on right before you bought it? Something is way wrong if you're breaking a new belt. That same belt drives the power steering pump, yes? So it could be any of the 3 things that are driven by the belt are seizing up and causing the belt to squeal then break. Just seems to me that if the P/S pump or alternator were the ones, that your alternator light would go on at the same time, or you would lose power steering at the same you're hearing the belt squeal. You mention overheating when you discover the belt was broken. Kind of leads me to believe the water pump is seizing.

Mark

[andrewc897]

good suggestion but the only reason for the overheating was that the belt that turned the alternator broke, and that belt turns the rest of the belts, and since the alternator wasn't working obvioulsy the water pump had no power hence the overheating...so i'm pretty sure it's some kind of electircal problem that's putting too much load on the alternator, and forcing it to seize up at times and squeak and eat the belt

[eagles talon]

i'm having the exact same problem. the alternator belt got eaten, so i went ahead and replaced all the belts. the new belts were squeeling and the older ones weren't, so i thought it was a breaking in thing. but i got screwed somehow, cause now too much bass in my sound system makes it cut off, and last i drove it, it overheated like mad. i haven't checked if the alternator or other belts are still on or not, but something's definately jacked up.

[bighauns]

I am having this exact problem right now with my 94 Talon (or at least I hope it is fixed, i am kinda waiting to see what happenes) I bought my talon, runnin all fine and dandy and then starts squeeling. I take it to a friend who has a mechanics shop...I thought I just needed the belts replaced. Turns out that every single alternator mount was seized and the pivot bolt on the bottom no longer had and threads left and the square head was rounded out into a near circle. I got it all fixed with new belts and tightened and the alternator nice and snug...and $200 later I was back on the road! A few days later I heard squeeling worse than b4 and I thought is was breaking in, so I took it back to my dude and the alternator belt was being ripped to shreads and the alternator was really loose. So we tightened it up and got a new belt and now 2 days later it is working fine. So really, it was the guy before me who owned it and did not maintain it properly and made the altnator unable to be mounted correctly (maybe...we will see what happenes) and if that is the case, I will have to pick up a new alternator. So yeah, maybe you ran into the same problem, I dunno. Just give the alternator a little push and see if it is loose, or go get it checked out, haha. Good luck and hope this helps!

[eagles talon]

yea.. it seems right now that the battery's just plain dead, so i'm pickin up a new one of those and seein if i can get it to a shop without bein towed. i'll look into that alternator bein loose, it could explain the belts not working out, thanks for the heads up on that. My biggest dread is that i'll have to shell out the cash for a new alternator, so hopefully it hasn't come to that.

[bighauns]

well, if you do have to buy an alternator, and if you dont have much cash just check out an auto wreckers. I can get one for only $65 Canadian. So, it shouldnt be too bad, I hope it isnt that for you, but if the battery is dead there is a good chance it is the alternator, if I understand you correctly that it. Good Luck,

[eagles talon]

alright thanks. and yea there's no shortage of wreckers and junkyards close enough for me to get to.