LuminaPower92 Posted July 12, 2008 Report Share Posted July 12, 2008 So my wife and I were leaving the mall, when my z made a horrible noise and i lost power steering. She said she smelled something burning like a rubber, then i smelt it. So i looked under the hood, could barely see anything. Looked ok. My sister in law live a minute or two from the mall so we figured maybe we could leave the car there. about a minute or two into driving i noticed the temp gauge in the red and the volt completely low. I coasted her as much as i could turned off. When we got there i checked with a flash light. The power steering pump pulley had completely seperated off the pump and was rubbing against the coolant resevoir which was up to the top due to high temp. The belt off of course causing my temp and volt gauge through the roof. Checked underneath, not too much, maybe a little moist but not soaked, poss from coming out the resevoir. Looked as best as i could at the heads, look like damp but not soaked..... Please God hope the heads and gaskets aint shot.............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White93z34 Posted July 12, 2008 Report Share Posted July 12, 2008 Well damn. So I'm not the only one that this has happened to. I had the same thing happen about oh 3 years ago or more now, I was taking a friend home from school and I heard a *ziiiiiiiiip Crack!* noise and I lost alternator, PS and waterpump all at once. I made it into the apartment complexes parking lot and waited for it to cool down, ended up paying about $30ish for a pulley from a dealership since I didn't have any ability to get one from a junkyard at the time. I highly doubt you suffered any long term damage from that. replace the pulley and be on your way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venom Posted July 12, 2008 Report Share Posted July 12, 2008 Well damn. So I'm not the only one that this has happened to. I had the same thing happen about oh 3 years ago or more now, I was taking a friend home from school and I heard a *ziiiiiiiiip Crack!* noise and I lost alternator, PS and waterpump all at once. I made it into the apartment complexes parking lot and waited for it to cool down, ended up paying about $30ish for a pulley from a dealership since I didn't have any ability to get one from a junkyard at the time. I highly doubt you suffered any long term damage from that. replace the pulley and be on your way. x2 doesnt sound like you killed anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breakdown Posted July 12, 2008 Report Share Posted July 12, 2008 Is this what you did? I did this back in March, fortunately a day BEFORE a 250 Mile roadie. It looked as if the car ate it's own serpentine belt. Put this pic in the running for the banner pics. Just so that you know if you did the same thing, you're disabling three things. 1.) You have no power steering. 2.) You have no power being returned to the battery, your car will disable itself if you didn't stop soon. 3.) You have no water pump, and hence the engine isn't getting cooled, I'm sure you're fine unless you drove around for 20 minutes like this, all of that time with the engine temp light on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
z34mightymachine Posted July 12, 2008 Report Share Posted July 12, 2008 Wow I have seen a serpentine belt like this before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w-bodys_are_the_best Posted July 12, 2008 Report Share Posted July 12, 2008 Yeah as long as you didn't drive too far. My uncle had a full size chevy van that had a GM Goodwrench TBI 305, and he forgot it had a single serpentine belt instead of the 3 or 4 seperate belts like all his other vans had, he drove too long and cooked the head gaskets thinking he still had a belt on the water pump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breakdown Posted July 12, 2008 Report Share Posted July 12, 2008 Wow I have seen a serpentine belt like this before. It's weird, I never have my camera in the car with me on non-game days, but I did on that day. I walked to a friend's place and it was pouring snow, like complete slush, so my feet are soaked and he opens the door, "what happened to you?" and I'm there going, um just wait a sec. get the camera out and go to preview mode. It was actually quite fortunate that it happened, because there was a lot of whining before that, and my water pump was just about dead so I got that fixed to (unrelated). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManicMechanic Posted July 12, 2008 Report Share Posted July 12, 2008 Mine ate the idler pulley and killed the belt a few months before I bought it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
89SupremeCutty Posted July 12, 2008 Report Share Posted July 12, 2008 Mine ate the idler pulley and killed the belt a few months before I bought it... it must have been hungry. i hope you've fed it since then so it dosn't kill anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuminaPower92 Posted July 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2008 Mine ate the idler pulley and killed the belt a few months before I bought it... it must have been hungry. i hope you've fed it since then so it dosn't kill anymore. No I definitely didnt run it for very long, as soon as I saw that light on, I coasted her as much as i could turned off. The whole escapade took maybe 5 min tops. My belt wasn't too mess up like the one above, just looked like it was off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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