Belt it!

[Andyp]

Hello,

Recently my pully belt has decided it likes to squeal. I don\'t like it as it sound like its in pain. The last week I opened up the bonet to watch it squealing and I sprayed it with some WD40... it liked that! Squealing stopped.

Next morning squealing again (think I woke her up hehe)

Now which options best

a) greese it a little some some greese
b) buy a new belt - dunno how easy they are to put on?

anyone else had it?

ta

Andy

[MikeLMR]

buy a new belt ... and a mazda one at that, the others don\'t last very long

[Andyp]

K will do... get one from Jimmy\'s I guess?

how easy (note I say easy and not hard) are they to put on?

[MikeLMR]

not very hard if they are easy to get too, if not it may be a bit tricky.

which belt is squeeling ? maybee another third gen owner can jump in and give tips on changing ?

[Andyp]

Shouldn\'t be too hard to get to



the arrow tip is where I sprayed it going round and seemed to work

[tom]

i\'ve just had exactly the same problem!!
i hate sqeaky belts, i refused to drive my car untill i sorted it!
mazda wanted £120+vat for the belts and a three week minimum wait, eeeer no thanks!
so i rung jimmys and they were 25 squid + vat and postage and i ordered them on the friday and had them on the monday!
they took about 2 hours to fit and while i was there i replaced both of them to save near future hassle!
theres a tensioner on the alternator and one on the power steering pump (thats one for each belt)!
theres also a tensioner on the underside of the air-con pump if the alternator belt dont slakern off enough!
i also removed the hard pipes and some breather hoses to make life easier and stop me pulling my hair out!
the grease wont last forever!!!
have fun

[Andyp]

cheers for the help Tom, pay day tomorrow so time to order some goodies

glad it\'s not too hard to do, don\'t mind spending some time on my baby

can you tell me exactly what ya ordered dude

cheers

[tom]

glad to be of help!
I rung up jimmy\'s in Norwich, and asked for the two drive auxillary belts. I dunno if that\'s what their called but he knew what i meant.  One is slightly longer than the other.

I didn\'t find it too hard but if you have any agg let us know.

:cool

[Andyp]

hehe my digital camera will be on standby should anything go wrong

Anyway gotta be better than paying Mazda to do it... not that any of them would touch a rex round here anyway!

[iaint]

Apparently there\'s a graphite spray you can use that has the same effect as WD40 but lasts ages (not justa  few hours).

Iain

[Andyp]

mmm if ya find out what it\'s called do let me know... gonna replace mine anyway as my mechanic thought it was about time they were done... but wouldn\'t mind lubing it up with that

[PERKINT]

Graphite sprays aren\'t hard to get hold of - I\'d expect Halfords to have them. If not, nip into a mo\'bike dealers and ask him for a can of graphite cable lube...

[PERKINT]

I\'m gonna have to stop using the back and refresh buttons - only realise a second too late that I\'ve just posted the same reply twice...

[Andyp]

hehe thanks nonetheless mate

[mraraju]

can anyone tell the contact details for Jimmys please.

Does he do other parts like the air pump. As mine siezed and it makes one hell of a squeael and it cuts the engine out as it stops dead.

Thx

Raju