why is my belt squeeling!

[fork5o]

i'm in the 95 gt. i took the smog pump off and bought a shorter belt but it makes this god awful squeel every time i start it up and sometimes when im driving it. the only idea i have is that the alternator pulley is freezing up because it chews the belt up when it starts squeeling. any ideas?

 

[wytstang]

Take the belt off and hand spin ALL the pulleys and see which on is either frozen or has a lot of resistance to it. It may be your A/C compressor has frozen up on you but check them all.

 

[ShiftTheDrift]

Agreed.

 

[mystang94gt]

A lady I work with had a similar prob on her 95 gt. It ended up being that the power steering pully was cocked sidewayz a little and it was causing the alternator to make the noise. This happened after she bought a shorter belt to by pass the a/c. She had to buy a new pully and it is fine now. I think wystangs idea is the best way to figure out which pully it is. But it has to be one of them.