[DeTomaso] DeTomaso] Do I own a Pantera or a Gremlin...?

[Christopher Kimball]

Thanks for the replies/suggestions:

"I've had this happen on a Fiero (although the Fiero belt is a multi V). The 
belt glass (or kevlar etc) reinforcement gives up through normal wear and 
tear, the belt stretches. It then slips, squeals, gets hot, melts, and 
snaps. QED."

"Chris, "New alternator" may be the key to the noise and smoke. When the new 
alternator was installed perhaps the pulley was out of alignment. That will 
do in a belt in short order."


"You could have an alternator bearing going bad, binding intermittentlyand 
making the belt slip."

Interestingly, the alternator belt and alternator are both new, and the 
alignment seems to be right on (I got the new bracket at the same time as 
the rest of the stuff when I ordered the flat firewall kit from Pantera 
Performance).

When inspecting the belt, it appears as if something actually hit it, or got 
jammed against it since you can clearly see a "mash" mark.  We're still 
investigating, but it is becoming clearer that was the cause of the smoke, 
not the clutch (whew!)  Maybe I'll make it to the European car show in 
Seattle this weekend after all!

Chris

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