302 Ford with a bad water pump. The squeal is high pitched like a belt slipping and goes up & down with rpm. I replaced the belts, the water pump and the alternator, still have a squeal. It's not as loud but still there.
It sounds like it's coming from the front of the engine near or just behind the water pump, are there bearings in the distributor? If it's cam bearings, the thing now goes to the "how bad do I want this" category.
Any thoughts?
Dan
Try the old "long screw driver held on to different components and to your ear" trick to listen and find the culprit.
does it have the multi-v belt or the v-belt drive? i've heard nasty squeals when the tensioner bearings eat poo
One V-belt, no tensioner, it's old.
I tried the screwdriver to the ear thing and got no where. Now I'm thinking vacuum leak. There is this one little chachka on the front of the intake manifold that has two nipples coming off it. One looks like the mud bees got to and is all plugged up, the other is broken off flush. I removed the fitting and saw a bronze temp sensor type of thing on the inside so I wrote it off as something I don't need but never suspected it sucked air.
J-B Weld, my buddy.
Dan
Oops, you beat me to it.
Yeah, that sound like the vacuum switch thing found on every early SBF engine. Did plugging that end your squeal?
