Dan, Disconcerting to hear- I'd replaced that belt ROUGHLY a year before you bought it. The interesting thing was I'd been getting an occasional squeak so I got a Continental replacement; found that the belt on the car (which had about 30k miles/2 years) showed signs of imminent failure with chunks of individual ribs gone and cracking throughout where ribs were still present. But I'd not seen a belt fail that quickly and that dramatically before. When you mentioned replacement of the belt I'd replaced it sounded strange. I assume you've taken a straightedge to the idler pulley face? The idler assy was replace in the year b/f I bought the car, but that means it's from 2006 or so.
You've checked for nicks; I can't think of anything else. Other than re-checking all pulleys to be true- I've had the pulley off the crank, p/s, water pump (and tensioner when I did the head gasket) back about 2007. The only other thing I can think of is Conti quality has gone away, but we would have heard of that by now, right? Tony Wirtel From: Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> > To: Mercedes List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: [MBZ] 92 300E Eating Serpentine Belta? > Message-ID: <2c336742-bfea-4955-87a2-1053acf9b...@penoff.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Eldest son comes to me on Saturday and says the belt on his car started > shredding Friday night. > > We replaced said belt for the exact same reason a good 6-8 months ago > which up until now has been fine. > > When we replaced the belt the last time I made a point of inspecting all > of the pulleys to make sure there were no burrs or damage, and none was > found. > > I looked at the belt and saw that just as it had before, the belt had > shredded just a small portion, maybe 1/8" on the inboard edge. The rest of > the belt is intact and undamaged. > > Any suggestions as to what might might be causing this? > > Dan > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
