I just got back from a "Sunday Cruise" - okay, I was a day early but that's not important. . .
About 3-4 miles from home I'm pulling away from a light on a mild curve and all of a sudden I found myself without power steering.
It shut off instantly so I figured it wasn't a fluid issue which left a few other options. I quickly got myself turned around to putter home as best I could. . . my mistake.
As it turns out the belt came off and, although it was content to wobble around harmlessly for a while, it eventually got hooked up with the AC belt. That then got wrapped around the fan and things got noisy, smoky and ugly VERY quickly.
Fortunately I was at another light (heading the other way) and was able to get off the road quicky. I've never gotten out of a car with a fire extinguisher in hand that quickly before.
Once I assessed the damage I knew I was gonna be okay. The only two belts involved were the ones mentioned above and I was able to borrow a pair of scisors to remove the mangled AC belt without damaging anything else.
The car made it home easily enough and now waits to go back to the guy that just put all of these new belts on, about 50 miles ago. . . :ugh
I should have left the 10 year old belts on, eh? :eyerole
About 3-4 miles from home I'm pulling away from a light on a mild curve and all of a sudden I found myself without power steering.
It shut off instantly so I figured it wasn't a fluid issue which left a few other options. I quickly got myself turned around to putter home as best I could. . . my mistake.
As it turns out the belt came off and, although it was content to wobble around harmlessly for a while, it eventually got hooked up with the AC belt. That then got wrapped around the fan and things got noisy, smoky and ugly VERY quickly.
Fortunately I was at another light (heading the other way) and was able to get off the road quicky. I've never gotten out of a car with a fire extinguisher in hand that quickly before.
Once I assessed the damage I knew I was gonna be okay. The only two belts involved were the ones mentioned above and I was able to borrow a pair of scisors to remove the mangled AC belt without damaging anything else.
The car made it home easily enough and now waits to go back to the guy that just put all of these new belts on, about 50 miles ago. . . :ugh
I should have left the 10 year old belts on, eh? :eyerole