Alternater bearing?

[cold96snake]

Wierd sound coming from belt/alternator area. Recently sprayed alternator with spray designed for alternators, coils, various electical components after cleaning engine w/ gunk engine degreaser. Not a high pitched squealing sound. Kind of raspy sound. Goes away after it warms up good.

 

[missouri_guy197]

It's probably your tensioner...you can either change the belt and it'll go away for a while until the belt wears down again or replace the tensioner with a 99+ one...it's a known issue on our years cars...that or just live with the sqeak until the car warms up...

 

[cold96snake]

It's not a squeak though. My car has around 34000 miles on it. Probably stock belt. It just started doing this after cleaning it. I sprayed some belt dressing on it after it warmed up and it started doing it again, lil more belt dressing and it stopped. I'm gonna start it up in the morning and see if it does it. Kinda scratchy sound, increase as rpms go up (not in volume). If i just change the belt, how long is a while until it wears down again?

 

[missouri_guy197]

I had to change my belt after I put pulleys on since it was sqeaking/ticking so bad...didn't do it again for about a year when it started getting cold again, but then it went away and it only really comes back when it gets really cold out...