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    Squeaking Drive Belt VS V6 commodore

    Good suggestion about putting extra tension with a spanner - wish I'd thought of that, just to give more evidence the noise comes from belt slip. Note that I'm not doing armchair diagnostics with my "sandpaper" treatment. I did it, and it fixed the squealing - no bullshit! A new tensioner spring...
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    Squeaking Drive Belt VS V6 commodore

    RX... To be clear, are you saying that misalignment of a pulley causes squeaking, but not in your case? Jordan
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    Squeaking Drive Belt VS V6 commodore

    Quick fixes like soap or whatever that temporarily change the coefficient of friction (grippiness) will stop being a fix as soon as it wears off. Reportedly, around 3 days. However, if the idea of adding stuff to improve grip appeals, there is some product that is designed for the job, like...
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    Squeaking Drive Belt VS V6 commodore

    Serpentine belt info Where are you getting this information, hako? It's not correct. Multi-ribbed belts have the same angled sides as single Vee belts - 40 degrees included angle. I dare say an old single Vee belt is also designed to wrap around a pulley! See picture of some multi-vee pulleys...
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    Squeaking Drive Belt VS V6 commodore

    Squeal fix Harking back to the days before German designed Holdens, there was a model (forget which) with a Red straight six motor that also had a common fault of squealing belt - the fanbelt as it was called those days. The cause was a pulley that hadn't been machined deeply enough, so that...
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    Something squeaking, fan belt? Pulley?

    This worked I thought the squeaks on my wife's VS might be that the V's on the belt had worn such that the tips are riding on the bottoms of the pulley grooves. That would prevent the wedging action that helps the belt grip. I used some abrasive cloth, stapled to a flat piece of timber, and...
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