Please Help I almost crashed due to this!

megalapagas · 08-22-2013, 01:19 PM

Just giving an Update, so I took my car to my mechanic and well the bearings on my top right idle pulley and the one from the very top from the Crankshaft pulley gave out. I'm getting both em replaced tomorrow and I advise my Fellow Z members to check your pulleys if u hear a "Ticking" sound cuz that's what happened to mine I just ignored it thinking it was normal from the car.

SATX_NISMO · 08-22-2013, 07:17 PM

Very strange for pulley to go out yet alone two of them. I've never seen two go out at the same time.

megalapagas · 08-23-2013, 02:59 PM

Dude you and me both lmao, well I took the parts today and ill get later on today at 5pm. I wanted to take ot the dealer but I got 65k miles already and well it looked like something easy to fix so just a heads up this car always has weird screw ups lol

luigi90210 · 08-24-2013, 03:30 AM

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Originally Posted by megalapagas

Dude you and me both lmao, well I took the parts today and ill get later on today at 5pm. I wanted to take ot the dealer but I got 65k miles already and well it looked like something easy to fix so just a heads up this car always has weird screw ups lol

You should have called the dealer and see if it could get covered. Sometimes dealers and manufactures make exceptions for this especially since you're only 5k over warranty.

DLSTR · 08-24-2013, 06:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Chuck33079

I think it was the sudden switch from power to manual steering when the belt snapped in mid turn that he was talking about.

This. He lost boost via no belt.

Ghostvette · 08-27-2013, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by megalapagas

Just giving an Update, so I took my car to my mechanic and well the bearings on my top right idle pulley and the one from the very top from the Crankshaft pulley gave out. I'm getting both em replaced tomorrow and I advise my Fellow Z members to check your pulleys if u hear a "Ticking" sound cuz that's what happened to mine I just ignored it thinking it was normal from the car.

This might be overkill, but when I have replaced the serpentine belt on other cars, I always replace the idler pulleys, then replace the tensioner around 75K. While the belt tends to run in the $50 to $60 range, the pulleys are around $20 (prices might be different for our cars, I'll check and see). With the amount of work it takes to get to the serpentine belt, it would seem to me to make sense to replace the idler pulleys at the same time.

megalapagas · 08-27-2013, 03:10 PM

Oh I did I didn't wanna have the same problem again lol the tensiober seem fine no worries to the slightest. But I did end up replacing the third idler pulley just to have all 3 idlers new and a new serpentine belt.

08-27-2013, 03:10 PM	#37 (permalink)
megalapagas Enthusiast Member Join Date: May 2013 Location: McAllen,TX Posts: 457 Drives: '10 370Z Tour A/T Rep Power: 11	Oh I did I didn't wanna have the same problem again lol the tensiober seem fine no worries to the slightest. But I did end up replacing the third idler pulley just to have all 3 idlers new and a new serpentine belt. 370Zsteve likes this.

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08-22-2013, 01:19 PM	#31 (permalink)
megalapagas Enthusiast Member Join Date: May 2013 Location: McAllen,TX Posts: 457 Drives: '10 370Z Tour A/T Rep Power: 11	Just giving an Update, so I took my car to my mechanic and well the bearings on my top right idle pulley and the one from the very top from the Crankshaft pulley gave out. I'm getting both em replaced tomorrow and I advise my Fellow Z members to check your pulleys if u hear a "Ticking" sound cuz that's what happened to mine I just ignored it thinking it was normal from the car.

08-22-2013, 07:17 PM	#32 (permalink)
SATX_NISMO Enthusiast Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: San Antonio Posts: 262 Drives: 2012 370 Nismo Rep Power: 12	Very strange for pulley to go out yet alone two of them. I've never seen two go out at the same time.

08-23-2013, 02:59 PM	#33 (permalink)
megalapagas Enthusiast Member Join Date: May 2013 Location: McAllen,TX Posts: 457 Drives: '10 370Z Tour A/T Rep Power: 11	Dude you and me both lmao, well I took the parts today and ill get later on today at 5pm. I wanted to take ot the dealer but I got 65k miles already and well it looked like something easy to fix so just a heads up this car always has weird screw ups lol